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Reducing malware infections in Switzerland
SWITCH helps reducing malware infections in Switzerland by a factor of four! Malware is a big issue in Switzerland too. It comes in many flavours, there is malware which tries to get at your bank...
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Cherries from the Belgian Internet Security Conference
Last week I was invited to the first Belgian Internet Security Conference in Brussels to talk about our Malware Domain program. The conference was hosted by Belnet, our Belgian sister NREN. Belnet also...
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Gedanken zur ‘User Awareness’
Das Thema “User Awareness” wird an Treffen von IT-Sicherheitsexperten regelmässig diskutiert. Oft gehört ist die Klage: “Nutzer halten sich nicht an die Ratschläge!”, gefolgt von Ideen zu noch besseren...
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ONE: The first NCSC conference
A year ago GovCERT.nl ceased to exist. The new kid on the block was the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC). Together with GovCERT.nl their famous conference went away and many were wondering if...
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Who are the bad guys?
With the recent media attention to hysteria about cyber attacks we get questions like “Why would the Chinese attack a bee-keepers website?” Well, they don’t, as far as we can tell. But, then who is it?...
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DDoS and Open Resolvers: The Swiss view
About a month ago the openresolver project published the results of a global scan enumerating open recursive DNS Servers. A daunting 27.200.613 systems where found. In the past we’ve reported on large...
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New wave of attack on Swiss Webservers
Since a few weeks SWITCH-CERT has observed a dramatic increase in sophisticated attacks on Swiss web servers. The compromised servers will then be used to distribute malware through drive-by attacks....
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Sommerlektüre: Blackout
Endlich sind die Temperaturen gestiegen, der endlose Januar zu Ende und die geplanten Sommerferien in Reichweite. Wer die warmen Temperaturen bei einem spannenden Buch geniessen möchte, dem sei Marc...
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Breaking News: New OpenSSL Vulnerabilities
Today the OpenSSL team announced new versions of the popular openssl libraries, which fixes several critical vulnerabilities. At the time of writing no exploits are seen in the wild. Never the less we...
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There is no such thing as a free domain
Since quite a long time now SWITCH actively cleans up drive-by sites. Attackers using the ever same tricks, analysing has become quite a routine, if not to say a bore. However recently, we stumbled...
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee receives the “Dutti-Prize” for a non-innovative idea
Yesterday I attended the award ceremony for Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s reception of the “Duttweiler-Preis”. For our non Swiss readers: Gottlieb Duttweiler founded Migros, today the largest food retailer in...
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Fixing hundreds of websites in one day
Remedying Angler infections in Switzerland In recent weeks the Angler exploit kit has become the dominating tool for DriveBy attacks. Cleaning Angler compromised web servers is a challenge which has...
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Attack of the killer Ads
By Daniel Stirnimann and Serge Droz Recently I was quoted saying “… .ch and .li are the most secure (top-level) domains!”. In the same meeting, Security Rock Star Mikko Hyppönen claimed, “Surfing the...
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