Category Archives: Switzerland

Swiss-Swedish Diplomatic Row Over Crypto AG

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Previously I have written about the Swedish-owned Swiss-based cryptographic hardware company: Crypto AG. It was a CIA-owned Cold War operation for decades. Today it is called Crypto International, still based in Switzerland but owned by a Swedish company.

It’s back in the news:

Late last week, Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde said she had canceled a meeting with her Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis slated for this month after Switzerland placed an export ban on Crypto International, a Swiss-based and Swedish-owned cybersecurity company.

The ban was imposed while Swiss authorities examine long-running and explosive claims that a previous incarnation of Crypto International, Crypto AG, was little more than a front for U.S. intelligence-gathering during the Cold War…

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European Cyber Units Dismantle InfinityBlack Hacking Group in Poland

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InfinityBlack, a hacking group based in Poland and Switzerland, was taken down by Polish and Swiss law enforcement after the arrest of five alleged active members. InfinityBlack has a very specific operating strategy, all based on stealing loyalty sche… Continue reading European Cyber Units Dismantle InfinityBlack Hacking Group in Poland→

Messaging app Wire confirms $8.2M raise, responds to privacy concerns after moving holding company to the US

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Big changes are afoot for Wire, an enterprise-focused end-to-end encrypted messaging app and service that advertises itself as “the most secure collaboration platform”. In February, Wire quietly raised $8.2 million from Morpheus Ventures and others, we’ve confirmed — the first funding amount it has ever disclosed — and alongside that external financing, it moved its […] Continue reading Messaging app Wire confirms $8.2M raise, responds to privacy concerns after moving holding company to the US→

Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – August 2019 Edition

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The half-year point has passed meaning that Azure (and Windows/Windows Server) are into a new planning & development cycle.

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Protecting Data Flow in Shifting Privacy Regulations

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In the face of political uncertainty, organizations are challenged every day to keep the personal data they hold safe across their entire ecosystem. They must be sure that their partners, suppliers and other third parties are also keeping the organiza… Continue reading Protecting Data Flow in Shifting Privacy Regulations→

ProtonMail denies that it offer real-time surveillance assistance

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By Ryan De Souza
ProtonMail, the famous end-to-end encrypted email service from Switzerland, has denied the claims made by a Swiss lawyer Martin Steiger regarding the company’s involvement in voluntary assistance to Swiss authorities for real-time surv… Continue reading ProtonMail denies that it offer real-time surveillance assistance→

Second flaw found in Swiss election system could change ‘valid votes into nonsense,’ researchers say

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Researchers have uncovered a second security flaw in the electronic voting system employed by the Swiss government. The vulnerability involves a problem with the implementation of a cryptographic protocol used to generate decryption proofs, a weakness that could be leveraged “to change valid votes into nonsense that could not be counted,” researchers Sarah Jamie Lewis, Olivier Pereira and Vanessa Teague wrote in a paper published Monday. This disclosure comes weeks after the same team of researchers announced they had uncovered a flaw in the e-voting system that could allow hackers to replace legitimate votes with fraudulent ones. Swiss Post, the country’s national postal service, which developed the system along with Spanish technology maker Scytl, said earlier this month that first vulnerability had been resolved. Researchers said at the time that the vulnerability demonstrated what can go wrong when governments shift to electronic voting with no alternative plan. The security and integrity of electronic voting […]

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Critical Flaw in Swiss Internet Voting System

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Researchers have found a critical flaw in the Swiss Internet voting system. I was going to write an essay about how this demonstrates that Internet voting is a stupid idea and should never be attempted — and that this system in particular should never… Continue reading Critical Flaw in Swiss Internet Voting System→

Critical Flaw in Swiss Internet Voting System

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Researchers have found a critical flaw in the Swiss Internet voting system. I was going to write an essay about how this demonstrates that Internet voting is a stupid idea and should never be attempted — and that this system in particular should never be deployed, even if the found flaw is fixed — but Cory Doctorow beat me to… Continue reading Critical Flaw in Swiss Internet Voting System→