Cristina del Carmen Arroyo Siruela Understanding Digital Certificates For ordinary citizens, digital certificates are those electronic files or documents that allow them to carry out thousands of legal actions, administrative actions, and they can dispense with having...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 16-22 October Zerodium interested in acquiring 0-days of Windows VPN software Information security company Zerodium has reported its willingness to purchase 0-day vulnerabilities targeting VPN service software for Windows systems: ExpressVPN, NordVPN...
Santiago Morante Cendrero Artificial Intelligence in fiction: Eva, by Kike Maíllo Are you afraid your food processor will rebel and poison your lentils? Do you think your Roomba is watching you? Do you wear a hat when you see a...
Luis Simón Gómez Semeleder IoT is on your head There are many Jobs in which protecting your head is vital to avoid serious accidents, but can you imagine being protected beyond the blows that a helmet prevents? And...
Emilio Moreno Latency and Edge Computing: Why is it important? For many years we have been in a race to increase the speed of our connections. Ever since those modems that treated us to a symphony of beeps, the...
Íñigo Echavarri The role of “Threat Hunting” as an enabler in ransomware incident response Following in the wake of the articles developed to shed light on incident response in our group, it seems clear that the actions required to deploy ransomware with the...
Gonzalo Fernández Rodríguez Manageability: the importance of a malleable system in a Cloud Native world We recently published the post Cloud Chestnuts in The Cloud, Or What It Means That My Software in which we tried to explain what the term Cloud Native meant...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 9-15 October Microsoft Security Bulletin Microsoft has published its security bulletin for the month of October in which it has fixed a total of 81 bugs in its software, including 4 0-day...
José Luis Núñez Díaz Towards a smarter supply chain One of the recurring use cases that is always mentioned when talking about Blockchain is its application in supply chains. In fact, back in 2018, at Telefónica we were...
Alexandre Maravilla Europe’s new digital identity; sovereign identity wallets Have you ever stopped to think about how many user accounts we have on the Internet? Bank accounts, utility providers, Social Networks, email, e-commerce, … Nowadays we handle an...
Telefónica Tech What have we learned about Cloud this September? This new course has come loaded with knowledge for the Telefónica Tech blog. Thanks to our experts, we continue to advance, on a daily basis, in our training on...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 2-8 October Apache vulnerabilities actively exploited Earlier this week, Apache fixed a 0-day (CVE-2021-41773) affecting Apache HTTP servers which was actively being exploited. However, on Thursday we learned that the patch released...
Telefónica Tech IoT, Big Data and AI convergence report The IoT and Smart Cities Cybersecurity Innovation Centre of Telefónica Tech Ciber Security & Cloud in Valencia, Spain, brings us a compilation of the potential risks related to IoT,...
Roberto García Esteban Cloud terms you can’t miss (II) As we saw in the first post of the series on cloud terms, as this technology advances, the jumble of terms and acronyms that are difficult to understand is...
David García Where does ransomware attack? Three main pillars It all starts with a tweet from a researcher (Allan Liska from RecordedFuture) announcing that he is compiling a list of vulnerabilities currently being exploited by organised groups in...
Roberto García Esteban Cloud terms you can’t miss (I) It was George Favaloro and Sean O’Sullivan, managers of Compaq Computer, who first used the expression “Cloud Computing” in 1996, and since then, the term has become so popular...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 25 September – 1 October Let’s Encrypt root certificate expires (DST Root CA X3) A few days ago, Scott Helme, founder of Security Headers, highlighted the 30 September as the date when Let’s Encrypt’s root certificate, DST...
David García What’s new in the OWASP 2021 ranking? OWASP, the foundation focused on web application security, has recently updated its ranking of the most prominent risks. Let’s take a look at the new reorganisation of the top,...
AI of Things 5 AI uses in Photography On our blog, we enjoy sharing the applications of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in sectors that may surprise you. Previously, in “Dining with Data” we saw how customers...
AI of Things Coca-Cola’s use of AI to stay at the top of the drinks market Coca-Cola is the largest beverage company in the world serving over 1.9 billion drinks daily across its 500 brands. Being such a large conglomerate active in so many countries...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Barriers to IoT adoption Internet of Things is constantly growing. There are more and more objects in our familiar environments that work connected through the network. It makes our everyday activities easier in...
Olivia Brookhouse Can Artificial Intelligence understand emotions? When John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded Artificial Intelligence in 1956, they were amazed how a machine could perform incredibly difficult puzzles quicker than humans. However, it turns out...
Santiago Morante Cendrero Warning About Normalizing Data For many machine learning algorithms, normalizing data for analysis is a must. A supervised example would be neural networks. It is known that normalizing the data being input to...
