Cybersecurity firm Dreamlab Technologies has found 106,000 security holes among 3.5 million servers in Switzerland, reports the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper. Some 50,000 weak points are rated as extremely serious.
Hackers have stepped up attacks against Swiss municipalities, universities and key services such as airports in the last couple of years.
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Swiss government and Federal Railways hit by cyberattacks
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Swiss federal government websites and the online portal of the Swiss Federal Railways have been victims of malicious online attacks.
“The ship is sinking. We must co-ordinate our efforts to plug the holes,” Dreamlab boss Nicolas Mayencourt told the NZZ am Sonntag on Sunday.
Parliamentarians from across the political spectrum have also called for more urgency in tackling the growing threat.
“It’s not even on our radar that Switzerland could suddenly find itself in the eye of a storm,” said People’s Party parliamentarian Franz Grüter.
From the start of next year, Switzerland’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) will become a new federal office, reporting to the defence minister.
The NCSC annual budget will correspondingly increase from CHF13.7 million to CHF14.5 million ($16.2 million). This will cover four extra full-time posts, the newspaper says.
But experts quoted in the article raise doubts whether this will be sufficient keep up with the rise in attacks.
Pro-Palestine uni protests to be debated in Swiss parliament
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The Swiss People’s Party says it will launch two postulates calling for clarifications about the recent student protests and occupations.
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Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church numbers dropping in French-speaking Switzerland
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Gotthard traffic queue hits 20km during holiday weekend
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Swiss Interior Minister visits Cannes Film Festival
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Swiss Interior Minister left the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday after three days of intensive dialogue, meetings and film screenings.
Swiss theatre director breaks with tradition at Vienna’s Rathausplatz
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Hacker group publishes stolen Swiss media data
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A hacker group has published stolen data from a Swiss newspaper group on the darknet. According to reports, this also includes employee data.
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The Swiss government wants to impose a mandatory duty to report cyberattacks on the operators of critical Swiss infrastructures, such as airports.
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