News in brief

Mar 2, 2023

Claudia Lienert new Head of Community Management

In her role, Claudia Lienert is responsible for developing client relationships with the Swiss education, research and innovation community. She took up her position on 2 March 2023.

Feb 28, 2023

SWITCH Security Report January/February 2023

SWITCH Security Report on the latest IT security and privacy trends.

Feb 8, 2023

Stable Internet in Switzerland is essential

The international Domain pulse conference was held in Winterthur on Monday and Tuesday under the heading of ‘Critical Internet infrastructure: maintaining sovereignty and protecting against abuse’. This year’s two-day event was...

Dec 16, 2022

SWITCH Security Report November/December 2022

SWITCH Security Report on the latest IT security and privacy trends.

Nov 16, 2022

SWITCH Security Report September/October 2022

SWITCH Security Report on the latest IT security and privacy trends.

Oct 27, 2022

Security vulnerability in Git repositories

Developers often use the open-source software Git to manage and version software source code. These kinds of Git directories not only contain the full source code, including previous versions, but potentially also sensitive,...

Jul 21, 2022

SWITCH Security Report May/June 2022

SWITCH Security Report on the latest IT security and privacy trends.

Jun 30, 2022

Annual report 2021

The 2021 financial year was characterised by renewals. Tom Kleiber took over as SWITCH’s new Managing Director, initiating the foundation’s transformation. The goal: to create an environment in which we are able to best respond to...

Apr 27, 2022

SWITCH Security Report 2022-03/04

The new SWITCH Security Report is online, covering the following topics: Google Chrome – 100 does it better. Zero-day attacks on the popular browser are multiplying Huge hole on the Ronin Bridge: hacker steals more than USD 600...

Mar 15, 2022

SWITCH Security Report 2022-01/02

The new SWITCH Security Report is online, covering the following topics: Good and evil in one square package: the comeback of the QR code A first look at the Metaverse: hackers launch severe and targeted attacks on special data of...