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‘Things Are About to Get Worse:’ GIJC23 Keynote Speaker Ron Deibert On the Battle Against Hidden Cyber Threats

By Rowan Philp | August 30, 2023

As director of Citizen Lab, Deibert, 58, will be the keynote speaker at the 2023 Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC23) in Gothenburg, Sweden. His warnings about the new cyber threats to independent journalism and democracy at that event promise to be even more ominous, and even more prescient.

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Reporter’s Guide to Investigating Digital Threats: Digital Infrastructure

By Etienne Maynier | April 11, 2023

The second installment of the GIJN cyber reporting guide to digital threats covers digital infrastructure and offers tools and resources for investigating online.

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Reporter’s Guide to Investigating Digital Threats: Digital Threat Landscape

By Etienne Maynier | April 18, 2023

The third installment of the GIJN guide to investigating cyber and digital threats covers the digital threat landscape and offers tools and resources for protecting one’s reporting and sources from surveillance and other online attacks.

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How Investigative Journalists Can Fight Back Against New, Enhanced Surveillance Threats

By Alexa van Sickle | June 7, 2023

A panel about the “brave new world” of surveillance at the 2023 IPI World Media Congress in Vienna discusses success stories around the world of journalists and activists pushing back against new and enhanced surveillance methods.

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Guía para periodistas: investigar el panorama de las amenazas digitales

By Etienne Maynier | June 8, 2023

Este capítulo de la guía de GIJN para investigar amenazas cibernéticas y digitales abarca un amplio panorama de riesgos en el entorno digital y proporciona valiosas herramientas y recursos para salvaguardar el trabajo periodístico.

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Forensic Tools Open New Front for Using Phone Data to Prosecute Journalists

By Madeline Earp | January 6, 2023

Like spyware, forensic tools can access everything on a phone or computer, but unlike spyware, such tools are in widespread, open usage in democracies as well as more repressive regimes. Their use has accelerated threats to the press while protections and public awareness lag behind.

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Editor’s Pick: 2022’s Best Investigative Stories in India 

By Deepak Tiwari | December 21, 2022

GIJN’s Hindi editor offers his picks for the best investigative journalism stories from India during 2022.

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6 Ways the Internet of Things Poses Security Threats to Journalists

By Anjuli Shere | November 9, 2022

The Internet of Things can pose many threats to journalists — at home, in the office, and in the field. To help us understand them, a cybersecurity researcher examines these threats across several categories along with real-world examples.

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Tips to Uncover the Spy Tech Your Government Buys

By Rowan Philp | July 14, 2021

In June, a French court indicted executives from two surveillance companies on charges of complicity in torture in Libya and Egypt, following revelations by journalists about their alleged technology sales to repressive regimes. In a series of interviews, investigative reporters shared tips and tools that newsrooms around the world can use to uncover the spyware and monitoring systems their governments are buying.

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Consejos para descubrir qué tecnología de espionaje compra tu gobierno

By Rowan Philp | October 14, 2022

Una serie de consejos para investigar la tecnología, el spyware y los sistemas de monitoreo que los gobiernos alrededor del mundo están comprando.

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