Tag Archives: Cybersecurity

Event-Tipp Wie wir die Cybersicherheit der Schweizer Infrastruktur nicht dem Zufall überlassen. ​Erfahren Sie, wie wir die Cybersicherheit der Schweizer Infrastruktur nicht dem Zufall überlassen. ​Begleiten Sie uns am Montag, dem 21. August 2023 bei einem Austausch zum Thema Cybersicherheit mit Fachleuten vom Bund und aus der Industrie. ​Ihr Gastgeber, das Nationale Testinstitut für Cybersicherheit NTC testet, was sonst nicht getestet wird. Es...

2021 war bezüglich Cybersicherheit ein sehr bewegtes und bewegendes Jahr. Welche Lehren lassen sich daraus ziehen? Welche Bedrohungen könnten im 2022 entstehen? Wie jedes Jahr wagt Stormshield einige Prognosen. Trend 1: Mangel an Fachkräften auch unter Cyberkriminellen? Signale aus 2021 Wenn sich 2021 in Bezug auf Cybersicherheit zu einem Trend zusammenfassen ließe, wäre es die Strukturierung der Cyberkriminellen. Parallel zur Explosion der Sicherheitsvorfälle und der erwirtschafteten Umsätze...

Swiss Cyber Security Days Zusammenarbeit mit dem WEF Center for Cybersecurity (c4c) und renommierte Referenten an der Ausgabe 2020 American Edward Snowden, the world’s most famous whistleblower, will be the special guest speaker at Swiss Cyber Security Days (which take place on Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 March 2021). The former CIA and NSA contractor who, in the summer of 2013, exposed the scale of US and UK intelligence agencies’...

Within the partnership, Android Opera users get the ability to purchase Bitcoin and Ethereum with a debit card, while iOS users can check the function in Apple Pay.Late January this year, Opera completed its efforts to provide Web 3-ready browsers with built-in Crypto Wallet on Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, and iOS. Now Opera users receive new options to buy cryptos. They can now do it using a debit card or Apple Pay. The initiative follows Opera’s partnership with crypto startup Wyre....

It is somewhat strange that the famous postal secrecy law doesn’t work online. If you use a third-party e-mail provider, anybody can gain access to your data and secrets and sell them.Google wasn’t charging the lazy investigators in the past. The legal fee that Google is taking for giving the users’ e-mails and phone talks is rising only in 2020. Specifically, the NYT reporters got their hand on the document by Google saying they need to ”offset the cost” of compiling the information for the...

Recently, Telegram founder Pavel Durov made quite a bold statement. On his Telegram channel, he argued that Apple‘s iCloud is now ‘officially a surveillance tool’. Further, Durov cited a Reuters report and stated that apps relying on it to store users’ private messages (such as WhatsApp) are part of the problem.But let us see how the whole story began.Apple’s iCloud Will Not Encrypt BackupsAbout two years ago, Apple was considering end-to-end encryption for iCloud backups. After doing that,...

A year ago Jeff Bezos, one of three richest men on Earth (two others are Bill Gates, Bernard Arnault), had a conversation with Saudi Arabia crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. According to the mysterious sources of the Guardian newspaper, the crown prince sent a malicious file containing a virus to Jeff via WhatsApp.Billionaire’s smartphone ha no chance to resist the virus, as it was packed inside a usual video file. The tricky conversation happened on May 1, 2019.The sources claim that during...

Advancement in technology has resulted in advanced strategies that criminals and terrorists use to pounce on innocent victims. Due to companies’ privacy policies, some manufacturers of the gadgets used by the crime perpetrators end up withholding crucial information to help perpetrators. One such company is Apple Inc.After the December 6, 2019, terrorist attack on a Florida Navy base, it emerged that the criminal used iPhones for part of his plans and communications. Since then, Apple is...