As the founder of the Citizen Lab, a University of Toronto-based organization known for detecting and diagnosing spyware infections worldwide, Ron Deibert has overseen investigations into privacy abuses in Hungary, Greece, Spain, Poland, El Salvador, Thailand and many other countries. Deibert, who has been a leader in putting the rapidly growing spyware problem on the map, is the author of the new book “Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion and the Global Fight for Democracy,” which chronicles his longtime battle against commercial surveillance technologies. In an interview with Recorded Future News, Deibert discussed his book’s fly-on-the-wall account of the evolution of spyware and how to detect it. He details the technical aspects of the Citizen Lab’s methods, why there is almost certainly spyware being used that hasn’t yet been discovered and how spyware companies continue to evolve to evade detection.
The Citizen Lab’s director dissects spyware and the ‘proliferating’ market for it (Suzanne Smalley, The Record)
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