Vaduz (ots) - On 3 February 2026, the government decided on further measures relating to legal entities without organs. The measures were developed by the task force set up in mid-2025. They are designed to strengthen legal certainty on the one hand and to continue to make it impossible to circumvent sanctions on the other. A high degree of compliance with applicable ...
Interkantonale Geldspielaufsicht (Gespa)
Berne (ots) - The Swiss Gambling Supervisory Authority (Gespa) filed a criminal complaint with the competent prosecution authorities in connection with the blockchain-based NFT platform of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). During the investigation, suspicions were confirmed that collect.fifa.com offers gambling services that are not ...
Frankfurt am Main (ots) - The Link11 European Cyber Report 2023 highlights a dramatic 70% increase in DDoS attacks, with attacks reaching critical levels in just 14 seconds on average, compared to 55 seconds in 2022. Additionally, two thirds of observed traffic is machine-based, indicating the prevalence of bot activity. The report emphasizes the rising complexity of the threat landscape and the critical role of AI-based ...
Bern, Switzerland (ots) - At an international meeting in Switzerland, victims' groups from all over Europe launched the large-scale "Justice Initiative". With this political initiative, abuse of children, especially in state and church institutions, is to be comprehensively dealt with for the first time in all European countries. A motion to bring the processing of ...
CSI Christian Solidarity International
Basel-Land, Allschwil (ots) - In December, at a sleep control an employee observed a child's sexual boundaries being exceeded. The daycare center immediately informed the police and parents about this. For information on the investigation against the former employee, media are asked to contact the public prosecutor's office. The announcement again caused great ...
Zug (ots) - Following substantial evidence brought up against the validity of Synova's EP 1833636 B1 by Avonisys AG in ongoing court proceedings before the Swiss Federal Patent Court, Synova substantially limited the original patent on 14 August 2020 by means of limitation proceedings before the Swiss Federal ...
Geneva and Zurich (ots) - Two cybersecurity leaders are combining their expertise to offer a continuous approach to improve the security posture of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and larger organizations. Their approach addresses the three main aspects of cybersecurity: people, processes and technology. Companies in Switzerland and Europe have been affected by ...
DUILLIER, Switzerland (ots) - Synova SA has brought an action against Avonisys AG and its directors with the Swiss Federal Patent Court for infringing on the Swiss part of Synova's Patent EP 1 833 636 B1 by marketing its "Air-Jet" technology. Synova is seeking an injunction and compensation of damages. Synova is the inventor of and commercializes the Laser MicroJet® ...
Barcelona (ots) - The medication NOLOTIL is one of the most widely distributed painkillers worldwide. However, its use has been prohibited in some countries because of adverse side-effects. To this day, NOLOTIL is still prescribed for acute pain in Spain, despite the potentially severe side-effects. The incidence of ...
Bern (ots) - The ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) of 17th December 2013 Perincek c. Suisse (no. 27510/08) has serious procedural and substantive shortcomings. Switzerland still has the chance to appeal a final revision at the Great ...
Fédération des Barreaux d'Europe (FBE)
Strasbourg, France (ots) - - Mr. Ümit Kocasakal, President of the Istanbul Bar Association and nine Board members are being prosecuted for their fight to guarantee the right of defense in Turkey - The European Bars Federation (FBE), representing 250 European Bars with more than 800.000 European lawyers sees the ...
New Yourk (ots) - The International Organization for Secure Electronic Transactions (OISTE.ORG) has been granted special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) by the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations during its 2013 regular session in New York. Founded in 1998 in ...
Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials AG
Amsterdam/Zurich (ots) - Swiss Takeover Board (TOB) confirms correctness of Quadrant offer price; Sarasin Investmentfonds AG (now part of the Safra Group) defeated in long-standing legal dispute The Swiss Takeover Board (TOB) issued a order today reaffirming the correctness of the public tender offer made by Aquamit B.V. for Quadrant AG in 2009. The TOB confirms in its order that the offer price paid to minority ...
Geneva (ots) - WISeKey announces the availability of WISeID for Windows Desktop, which fully supports cloud synchronization via Dropbox with WISeID 4.0 for iOS, Mac and Android. Forgot a password? Never again with WISeID, the only password you'll ever need. WISeID Data Locker helps users to securely store and remember all digital personal data on a single ...
Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - Le Guin, the new German handcrafted luxury eyewear manufacturer, and WISeKey, the Swiss digital brand protection company, recently partnered to protect and enhance Le Guins newly launched titanium eyewear collection. Developed and manufactured in an established high-end factory in the south of Germany, with decades of expertise in the field of mechanical engineering and craftsmanship all Le ...
New York (ots) - WISeKey in cooperation with the International Organization for Secure Transactions Foundation (OISTE.org) pledged in 2006 at the Clinton Global Initiative to provide a Digital Identification Infrastructure designed to support a network of 20,000 Identification Authorities worldwide with the ...
Beijing/Geneva (ots) - WISeKey announces a strategic partnership with the Chinese BOCO group to jointly distribute the WISeID solution in the Chinese market and establish a technology center of excellence in China using BOCO facilities and human resources and a local WISeKey team. WISeKey will assist BOCO in ...
Zurich/Moscow (ots) - Federal Attorney General's Office again rejects criminal complaints lodged by Oleg Deripaska (UC Rusal) Just three weeks after the Swiss Federal Criminal Court rejected an objection lodged by Oleg Deripaska (UC Rusal) to a previous such ruling, the Swiss Federal Attorney General's Office has announced that it will not be further investigating the ...
Geneva (ots) - WISeKey, using its leadership in Digital Identity Management, has developed the Social Media Security Graph methodology for personal information protection. The security company advocates that personal data protection need not be neglected for the enjoyment of social media or surrendered to the ...
Zurich, Switzerland/Moscow, Russia (ots) - The Swiss Federal Criminal Court has rejected in full the objection lodged by Oleg Deripaska and UC Rusal to the decision by the Federal Attorney General's Office not to investigate their allegations. The objection was lodged in response to the decision (and corresponding decree) by the Federal Attorney General's Office not to pursue the criminal complaint against Interros and ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots) - WISeKey brings its anti-counterfeiting technology to BaselWorld to demonstrate to the Luxury Goods Market how its advancements with NFC will help prevent the distribution of counterfeit products. WISeKey's anti-counterfeiting technologies revolutionized the fine timepiece industry when ...
Davos, Switzerland (ots) - WISeKey has been named a Global Growth Company Partner of the World Economic Forum (WEF), granting the company full participation at the 2012 Annual Meeting in Davos. WISeKey is recognized as a role model for innovative cyber-security technology and efforts to protect individuals, businesses, and governments on the Internet. The WEF ranks ...
St. Gallen (ots) - In the Swiss newspaper "SonntagsZeitung" of 08.01.2012, two questions were raised in regard to the controversy between the US authorities and the Swiss financial centre: what would happen to a bank structured as a limited partnership - such as Wegelin & Co. - firstly if one of its Partners were indicted by the USA, and secondly, if the bank itself were indicted by the USA. The answer to these ...