Payments via smartphone or contactless cards are becoming ever more popular. To shop with no need for cash or codes is convenient – yet it also involves risks.

They offer certain advantages when compared to classic financial institutions. Online banks have one big drawback though: It is often not very easy to contact them.

An ever increasing number of data is stored on the Internet nowadays – whether you are aware of it or not. But how secure are your personal data?

QR invoices are set to revolutionise Swiss payment transactions. They contain all the relevant payment information inside the QR code, replacing those red and orange deposit slips.

It is not just our homes and offices which accumulate plenty of clutter, but our devices, too. And such clutter not only takes up a lot of your device memory and affect its performance, but also …

There are several third party providers offering intra-bank payment and account information services for e-banking customers. And although this may be convenient, there are some risks involved.

Online services are hacked on quite a regular basis, and the captured data, such as e-mail addresses or passwords, are subsequently published. The Have I Been Pwned service pools information on any …

Whether at home, at work or in a public space: Today you can go online just about anywhere and at any time. This often involves the use of a WLAN.

The Internet takes away more and more of our privacy. Data disclosed by our browsing behaviour, e. g. our search requests, are used by both organisations and crooks for their own ends, such as market …