At the end of June it emerged that the Garmin com­pany had fallen victim to a ransom attack. This case dra­mat­i­cally illus­trates just how impor­tant data back-ups can be.

The “Winter Dreams” com­pe­ti­tion has now ended. And our lucky win­ners have been decided!

In about a months’ time, sup­port for Win­dows 7 will cease. After that point in time, no fur­ther secu­rity updates will be pro­vided. Users should there­fore switch over to Win­dows 10 as soon as they can …

The inde­pen­dent AV-Test research centre AV-TEST has pub­lished its secu­rity report for 2019/2020. This shows that the upwards trend in the mal­ware industry, which started in 2019, con­tinues in 2020 …

Do you use Face­book or Twitter? Are you also using them in a secure fashion? Our updated check­lists will help you to use these media safely.

We are cur­rently wit­nessing an increased number of “invest­ment fraud” attacks in Switzer­land. How can you pro­tect your­self against such attempts at invest­ment fraud?

The free-of-charge “Have I Been Pwned” plat­form, where you can check whether any of your online accounts have been hacked, just keeps growing. It cur­rently includes over 10 bil­lion entries.

Cur­rently, there is an increase in fraud­u­lent e-mails from finan­cial insti­tu­tions. These are trying to lure e-banking cus­tomers to banking web­sites which are just as fake.

A new Fed­eral Court ruling is the talk of the town: Hackers ran­sacked a customer’s account, and his bank didn’t accept any lia­bility. Yet you can pro­tect your­self against such losses.

Online fraud­sters keep finding ever new ways to get their hands on your money — quite fre­quently involving black­mail. Pro­tect your­self!