Table of Contents

1. Latest Publications
2. Opportunities
3. News and Announcements

1. Latest Publications
 

• A Tough Nut to Crack: A Further Look at Privacy and Security Issues in UC Browser

  We analyze Windows and Android versions of UC Browser, and find they transmitted personally identifiable information with easily decryptable encryption and were vulnerable to arbitrary code execution during software updates.
   

• Group5: Syria and the Iranian Connection

  This report describes an elaborately staged malware operation with targets in the Syrian opposition. The operators use a range of techniques to target Windows computers and Android phones with the apparent goal of penetrating the computers of well-connected individuals in the Syrian opposition. Read Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert's op-ed in the Washington Post.
   

• On Research in the Public Interest

  A statement from Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert concerning a defamation suit recently filed and then discontinued by Netsweeper against the University of Toronto and Ron Deibert.
   

2. Opportunities

• Job Posting: Security Researcher / Malware Analyst

  We are hiring a Security Researcher / Malware Analyst to support our work on threats against civil society. Interested applicants should send an email with cover letter and résumé to info [at] citizenlab.org with the subject line “Security Researcher Application.”

3. News and Announcements

• Citizen Lab research in Alhurra and VICE

  Citizen Lab’s research was featured in an episode of Alhurra's Eye on Democracy show and in VICE's Cyber Mercenaries episode, as part of their Cyberwar series.



• Masashi Crete-Nishihata on LINE's IPO and censorship concerns

  Citizen Lab Research Manager Masashi Crete-Nishihata was interviewed by Al Jazeera regarding censorship practices in popular Asian instant messaging applications.
   

• Summer Institute leads to OONI and Strathmore report

  Strathmore Law School in Kenya and the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) have published a report on a recent Internet shutdown in Ethiopia.
   

• Claudio Guarnieri on alleged NSA-affiliated Equation Group hack

  A group calling itself the "Shadow Brokers" has claimed to have hacked Equation Group, a hacking group associated with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), and is offering the stolen technology to the highest bidder. Citizen Lab Senior Research Fellow Claudio Guarnieri discussed the credibility of the claims with The Wired.
  
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