Security Report reveals new vulnerabilities
Swisscom's Security Report constantly shows changes in the security situation on the Internet. In the latest Security Report, the worrying increase in global identity theft and Internet espionage is particularly striking.
Swisscom's security report shows once again that cyberattacks on companies are unfortunately already a daily occurrence internationally. The consequences are serious: around one million user account login details were stolen in Switzerland alone in seven major data leaks in a wide range of industries and at various companies - this makes the Security Report 2017 by Swisscom is published for the first time. Also exclusive to the report is an overview showing how severely individual Swiss industrial sectors, as well as our media and administration, are affected by these data thefts.
Other contents of the report:
- The virtual security situation as a current threat radar
- Rewards for discoverers of vulnerabilities: Experiences and current figures from the first year of the Swisscom Bug Bounty Programme
- Where stolen data from data leaks goes and how it affects the economy and society ("Known Unknowns").
- Targeted and averted attack on thousands of bluewin.ch users as a result of the exposure of data from a data leak
- How innovative approaches prevent attacks and better protect customers (e.g. "Phishing Inspector")
Cyber threats are mostly technical in nature, but effective countermeasures are not simply a matter of technology. Knowledge is one of the most effective defence measures - the knowledge of correlations and possible countermeasures. With the Security Report, Swisscom therefore wants to share its knowledge with society, raise awareness of the dangers and make protective measures more widely known. (Source: Swisscom)
