Category: Feature
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Digital Security: What Everyone Should Know: Review of the First Run
In spring semester of 2026, we ran our new flagship course, “Digital Security: What Everyone Should Know“, for the first time. Funded under the “Transdisciplinary Innovation 2024/25” call for proposals,
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Why Awareness Fails – and Six Storytelling Principles to Fix It
DNS, VPN, SQL … Help! “And this is how DNS works.” I blink once. Then twice. The person in front of me waits expectantly for a sign that I understood
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From Procedures to Peril: Why Privacy Needs a Shift Toward Risk Transparency
Data privacy is everywhere and yet, for most people, it remains deeply opaque. Cookie banners, privacy policies, and app permissions are meant to inform us, but in reality, they often
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Four additional Cybersecurity Clinic Projects successfully completed
The CYRENZH Cybersecurity Clinic was launched in 2024 and offers selected organizations such as SMEs, start-ups, municipalities, schools, non-profit organizations, and associations pro bono cybersecurity services. The projects are executed by students from
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OSINT Playdates: How Zurich Became a Playground for Open-Source Intelligence
Open-Source Intelligence, or OSINT, thrives on curiosity, collaboration, and hands-on problem-solving. The most valuable lessons rarely come from lectures or conference panels, but from working together on real puzzles, testing
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From Fires to Cybersecurity: How Switzerland Can Harness Its Ecosystem
Lessons from fire incidents and response in the 19th century The Incident: Human Error, Late Detection, and Insufficient Equipment On 4 September 1803, Johannes Temperli walked home to Gutenswil with
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Research Update
In this Research Update, we present two articles: Article 1: Learning from safety – What cybersecurity can learn from reporting systems This article is a review article published in the
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Cyber Law as a Future Skill: UZH Launches New Module on Digital Law, Data Protection, and AI Regulation
Law is the infrastructure of the digital society. Without it, data protection, digital fairness, or AI ethics would remain little more than good intentions. With the new module “Cyber Law
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CYREN ZH Summer School 2025
The CYRENZH Summer School – jointly organized by Zurich University of Applied Sciences and University of Zurich – was the first edition of the Zurich Cybersecurity Summer School series, focusing on
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Telling Stories That Stick: How Storytelling Brings Cybersecurity and Science Communication to Life
On a beautiful afternoon in Tenerife, SWITCH-CERT lead Darja-Anna Yurovsky experienced a moment that many cybersecurity professionals know too well. Although she was passionate and well-prepared for her talk on