Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 12 – 16 June Microsoft has fixed more than 70 vulnerabilities in its June Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released its June Patch Tuesday, addressing a number of critical, high, medium and low severity vulnerabilities....
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 27 May – 2 June Backdoor discovered in hundreds of Gigabyte motherboards Cybersecurity researchers at Eclypsium discovered a secret backdoor in the firmware of hundreds of Gigabyte motherboard models, a well-known Taiwanese manufacturer. Every time...
Miguel Ángel Martos Has the Office as We Know It Come to an End? 2020 has had a difficult start. We have learned that what was “usual” may not be the best. We should reconsider this idea of “the office” as the centre...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing December 5-11 Microsoft Security Newsletter On December 8, Microsoft published its monthly security update newsletter, which this time includes patches for 58 vulnerabilities and an advisory for various Microsoft products. Nine of...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 19 – 23 June Critical vulnerabilities in Asus routers Asus has issued a security advisory addressing a total of nine vulnerabilities affecting multiple router models. Among these security flaws, the one registered as CVE-2022-26376,...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 12 – 16 June Microsoft has fixed more than 70 vulnerabilities in its June Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released its June Patch Tuesday, addressing a number of critical, high, medium and low severity vulnerabilities....
ElevenPaths In search of improved cryptocurrency privacy with Dash, Zcash and Monero When we talk about cryptocurrencies we often find ourselves with the belief that their use is completely anonymous. However, those who have investigated a little about them (because it...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 4 – 10 December Catalan government suffers DDoS attack According to the statement issued by the Catalan government, the Centre de Telecomunicacions i Tecnologies de la Informació (CTTI) detected last Friday a cyber-attack that compromised more...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 12 – 16 June Microsoft has fixed more than 70 vulnerabilities in its June Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released its June Patch Tuesday, addressing a number of critical, high, medium and low severity vulnerabilities....
Martiniano Mallavibarrena ‘Insiders’ in Cybersecurity: “Catch me if you can” Within companies, there is a significant window of opportunity for cybersecurity incidents: disgruntled employees, suppliers, subcontractors...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 5-11 March Mozilla patches two 0-day vulnerabilities Mozilla has issued a security advisory patching two 0-day vulnerabilities that are reportedly being actively exploited and affect Firefox, Focus and Thunderbird. Both vulnerabilities were...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing July 4-10 RCE Vulnerability in F5’s BIG-IP (CVE-2020-5902) Last Wednesday a new critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability (CVE-2020-5902 CVSSv3 10) was published for F5’s Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI). This vulnerability allows...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 21-28 October Campaigns spreading ERMAC malware A team of Cyble researchers recently discovered a mass phishing campaign aimed at spreading the ERMAC banking trojan. The infection method is based on downloading fake...
Estevenson Solano What is the Fifth Domain and what is its strategic importance? In recent years, conflict and stability in cyberspace have become a growing concern for many countries and organisations that consider cyberspace as a strategic domain and have strengthened their...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 15-21 October The Noname057(16) group attacks the Spanish Ministry of Defense Last Friday, threat actor Noname057(016) carried out an attack against the website of the Spanish Ministry of Defense, rendering them unavailable...
Juan Carlos Vigo López Secure Digital Workplace: chronicle of a foretold (and necessary) evolution The changes that have taken place in the Digital Workplace lately have put some technological areas under stress, as we have had to adapt to the evolutions during and...
Telefónica Tech Selecting a managed security service provider (MSSP): 5 key factors to keep in mind An Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) offers you a team of seasoned security experts that will work for you at a fraction of the cost of building your security...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 7 — 14 October Critical vulnerability in Fortinet Fortinet has issued a security advisory to its customers urging them to update their FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxy, in order to fix a critical authentication bypass...
Diego Samuel Espitia How to protect your social media accounts Companies and individuals use social networks today to generate new revenue or to sell their services and products, much more than just to communicate with other people or to...
Roberto García Esteban 6 common mistakes when quoting for a Cloud project There is no doubt that Cloud Computing technology brings with it enormous opportunities for companies, but its financial particularities need to be well understood. Traditionally, the IT model was about...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 1 — 7 October Lazarus targets Dell via new FudModule rootkit ESET researchers have reported a new Lazarus campaign targeting a Dell hardware driver using a new rootkit called FudModule. The rootkit uses a...
Roberto García Esteban Cloud Computing is the future of the healthcare sector Healthcare is a sector that is continuously generating a large amount of data. To put it in numbers, every year our National Health System manages 234 million medical consultations...
Florence Broderick New tool: Maltego transforms for Tacyt If you are a Maltego user, you already know how intuitive and useful it is for researching and analyzing information. You may know as well that Maltego allows to...
Florence Broderick Quick and dirty script in Powershell to check certificate fingerprints Malware is using signed binaries to attack Windows systems. Malware needs it to get into the roots of the operative system. So attackers steal or create their own certificates....
Florence Broderick Evil FOCA is now Open Source We are really happy to announce that Evil FOCA is now Open Source. We have received lots of comments and feedback about how you are using Evil FOCA, or how...
Florence Broderick New Tool: MicEnum, Mandatory Integrity Control Enumerator In the context of the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems, Mandatory Integrity Control (MIC) is a core security feature introduced in Windows Vista and implemented in subsequent lines...
Florence Broderick How does blacklisting work in Java and how to take advantage of it (using whitelisting) Oracle has introduced the notion of whitelisting in its latest version of Java 7 update 40. That is a great step ahead (taken too late) in security for this...
