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Begun, the Spectrum Wars have. First, it was AM radio getting the shaft (last item) and being yanked out of cars for the supposed impossibility of peaceful coexistence with rolling …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 7, 2024
By Deeba Ahmed
In June 2023, Xplain, a Swiss IT services provider, fell victim to a cyberattack claimed by the Play ransomware group.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Xplain Hack Aftermath: Play Ransomware Leaks Sensitive Swiss … Continue reading Xplain Hack Aftermath: Play Ransomware Leaks Sensitive Swiss Government Data
What’s being hailed as the world’s tallest 3D-printed building is being readied for assembly in a remote Swiss village. The White Tower from researchers at ETH Zurich will be formed from over a hundred columns, with a performance space sat on top.
Category: Architecture, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, 3D Printing, ETH Zurich, Skyscrapers, Switzerland, World’s Tallest
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Switzerland said that a cyberattack claimed by a pro-Russian group disrupted access to some government websites, following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Davos.
The post Swiss Govt Websites Hit by Pro-Russia Hackers After Zelensky Vi… Continue reading Swiss Govt Websites Hit by Pro-Russia Hackers After Zelensky Visit
Online voting is insecure, period. This doesn’t stop organizations and governments from using it. (And for low-stakes elections, it’s probably fine.) Switzerland—not low stakes—uses online voting for national elections. Andrew Appel explains why it’s a bad idea:
Last year, I published a 5-part series about Switzerland’s e-voting system. Like any internet voting system, it has inherent security vulnerabilities: if there are malicious insiders, they can corrupt the vote count; and if thousands of voters’ computers are hacked by malware, the malware can change votes as they are transmitted. Switzerland “solves” the problem of malicious insiders in their printing office by officially declaring that they won’t consider that threat model in their cybersecurity assessment…
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Swiss government websites are under DDoS attacks, but several ransomware gangs have also turned their sights on Swiss government organizations, cantonal governments, cities and companies in the last few months. Government sites under DDoS attacks ̶… Continue reading Switzerland under cyberattack
Switzerland said government operational data might have been stolen in a ransomware attack on a technology firm that provides software for several departments.
The post Swiss Fear Government Data Stolen in Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Lightning rods have been used to guide lightning strikes for centuries, but now scientists have demonstrated something a bit more advanced than a humble metal stick. Beaming a high-powered laser into the sky was shown to deflect lightning bolts, which … Continue reading Scientists guide lightning bolts with laser beams for first time
Researchers have discovered cryptographic vulnerabilities in Swiss-based secure messaging application Threema that may have allowed attackers to do things like break authentication or recover users’ long-term private keys. The vulnerabilities have been… Continue reading Crypto audit of Threema revealed many vulnerabilities
By Waqas
Two Factor Authentication via Physical Security Keys is Now Possible on ProtonMail.
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