SWITCH Security Report May/June 2022

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The latest issue of our bi-monthly SWITCH Security Report is available. The main topics of the current report are:

  • Even cyclists aren’t safe from cybercrime
  • Rogue ads on the advance
  • When hackers join the team – ransomware and cryptotrojans spreading on Confluence Server and Data Center
  • Causing a hoot: Meeting Owl Pro more secure, but still four security gaps away from ‘secure’

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SWITCH Security Report March/April 2022

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The latest issue of our bi-monthly SWITCH Security Report is available. The main topics of the current report are:

  • Google Chrome – 100 does it better. Zero-day attacks on the popular browser are multiplying
  • Huge hole on the Ronin Bridge: hacker steals more than USD 600 million from the Ronin blockchain
  • POP is king – patches on printers yet again
  • Mission Impossible, but in real life
  • Road hack: ransomware attack spares 3,000 road racers fines and other penalties

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SWITCH Security Report Januar/Februar 2022

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The latest issue of our bi-monthly SWITCH Security Report is available.
The main topics of the current report are:

  • Good and evil in one square package: the comeback of the QR code
  • A first look at the Metaverse: hackers launch severe and targeted attacks on special data of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
  • The Ukraine war and the duplicity of the Metaverse
  • Apple AirTags – the “next big thing” in data misuse?

SWITCH Security Report November/December 2021

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The latest issue of our bi-monthly SWITCH Security Report is available.

The main topics of the current report are:

  • GoldDust but no nuggets: seven REvil partners caught, but the real orchestrators are still out there
  • EasyHack? Data belonging to COVID-19 loan recipients stolen from EasyGov platform
  • Tor under siege: massive de-anonymisation attacks target Tor network
  • No end to the virus in sight – do we need a patch campaign alongside a vaccination campaign?

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SWITCH Security Report September/October 2021

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The latest issue of our bi-monthly SWITCH Security Report is available.

The main topics of the current report are:

  • Covid collateral damage: how the pandemic impacts IT security
  • Malware-as-a-service – advertised via Google Ads and supported by brazen PR
  • Advertising and reality: data stolen from 50 million T-Mobile US Inc. customers
  • Facebook face down – the temporary fall of the Zuckerberg empire

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SWITCH Security Report July/August 2021

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The latest issue of our bi-monthly SWITCH Security Report is available.

The main topics of the current report are:

  • Perhaps 1984 WAS like 1984 – a big blunder by Apple or simply brilliant advertising?
  • Pegasus: what IT users can learn from the ancient Greeks
  • The biggest hack in cryptocurrency history – fingerwagging or hacker vanity in its purest form?
  • In bed with Siri, Alexa and Uber – what is the privacy and data security situation for working from home?


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The May/June 2021 issue of our SWITCH Security Report is available!

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A new issue of our bi-monthly SWITCH Security Report is available!

The topics covered in this report are:

  • Back and forth in the pipeline: hacking and rehacking the US fuel firm Colonial Pipeline with Ransomware as a Service
  • Meat and greed – the world’s largest meat processing company pays a hefty USD 11 million ransom after a ransomware attack
  • When Android devices catch the flu: FluBot, the banking trojan, spreads to Android devices
  • Russian cyber spies attack government and NGO networks

The Security Report is available in both English and German.

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The March/April 2021 issue of our SWITCH Security Report is available!

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A new issue of our bi-monthly SWITCH Security Report is available!

The topics covered in this report are:

  • Exploit on Exchange – vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange servers trigger a red alert
  • Learning by doing – data leaks discovered in the Swiss Army’s cyber training school
  • Rocky start(up) at Verkada – 150,000 surveillance cameras hacked
  • Refunds from the remorseful Ziggy ransomware gang
  • Data scraping on Facebook and LinkedIn: big data brings big damage

The Security Report is available in both English and German.

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The September/October 2020 issue of our SWITCH Security Report is available!

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A new issue of our bi-monthly SWITCH Security Report is available!

The topics covered in this report are:

  • Ransomware – the new normal of digital extortion
  • A murky supply chain – how hackers profited from Cumulus data
  • Smisherman’s Friends – a new wave of smishing attacks is washing over Europe and Switzerland

The Security Report is available in both English and German.

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The Mai/June 2020 issue of our SWITCH Security Report is available!

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A new issue of our bi-monthly SWITCH Security Report is available!

The topics covered in this report are:

  • The coronavirus: a blessing for some, a curse for others – where is IT security at with contactless payment?
  • You’ve got mail (and malware too) – serious security gap in Apple’s Mail app on iPads and iPhones now closed
  • Everything must go – ‘Shade’ hackers ‘shut down’ and publish hundreds of thousands of decryption keys
  • Swiss users targeted by cybercriminals
  • Elite targets – ETH supercomputers Euler and Leonhard (and more) hacked

The Security Report is available in both English and German.

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The March/April 2020 issue of our SWITCH Security Report is available!

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A new issue of our bi-monthly SWITCH Security Report is available!

The topics covered in this report are:

  • The coronavirus has company – a pandemic of computer viruses
  • The ten most important rules for working securely from home
  • Online meetings – how secure are Cisco Webex and Zoom?
  • For real? Ransomware gangs develop a ‘code of honour’ in the coronavirus pandemic

The Security Report is available in both English and German.

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The May/June 2019 issue of our SWITCH Security Report is available!

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A new issue of our bi-monthly SWITCH Security Report is available!

The topics covered in this report are:

  • Brought to light: Federal Crime Office closes down the world’s second largest illegal dark web marketplace
  • WhatsApp, state trojans? Or, why the city of San Francisco protects privacy better than Mark Zuckerberg’s messenger app
  • Privacy at Facebook, part two: when the lawyer contradicts the boss
  • Symmetry as a fundamental principle: now that we have software as a service, it is only a matter of time before we have cybercrime as a service

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A new issue of our SWITCH Security Report is available!

Dear Reader!

A new issue of our bi-monthly SWITCH Security Report is available!

The topics covered in this report are:

  • An own goal and serious foul: Spanish football league’s app turns 10 million users into involuntarily spies
  • Amazon Rekognition – useful security and convenience tool or total surveillance for pennies?
  • An underestimated risk: the number of malware attacks on smartphones and tablets is exploding
  • Phishing with the stars: scammers take advantage of our celebrity obsession and the crypto craze to cause harm to users

The Security Report is available in both English and German.

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A new issue of our SWITCH Security Report is available!

Dear Reader!

A new issue of our bi-monthly SWITCH Security Report is available!

The topics covered in this report are:

  • Meltdown and Spectre: security meltdown directly from the processor
  • Leaks, fakes and cryptocurrency hacks: business models of a different kind
  • Italianitá in the smartphone – state trojan monitors smartphone users
  • Kaspersky shut out of Lithuania as well
  • Strava leaks – fitness secrets of a different kind

The Security Report is available in both English and German.

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A new issue of our SWITCH Security Report is available!

Dear Reader!

A new issue of our bi-monthly SWITCH Security Report is available!

The topics covered in this report are:

  • Dresscode for apps in the Google Play Store: malicious
  • Quad9 – does it offer a data protection-friendly alternative to Google DNS?
  • Uber’s customer and driver data on a highway to the Dark Net
  • An earful of espionage: when headphones become listening devices

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