The central governing body of Switzerland, located in Bern, has confirmed that several Swiss federal departments were affected by distributed denial-of-service assaults on Wednesday. These cyber-attacks resulted in short-term outages for some of their public websites. The responsibility for these cyber disruptions was claimed by a Russian activist hacker group that identifies itself as NoName057(16), otherwise known as NoName. “Typically, cyber attackers leverage attacks on a website’s accessibility to draw the media’s spotlight towards their agenda,” stated the Swiss officials. …