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...
ElevenPaths We Announce Our Digital Operation Centers, Where All Our Digital Services Are Focused The Telefónica Cybersecurity Unit holds its VII Security Innovation Day, under the motto ‘Guards for Digital Lives.’With speakers such as Chema Alonso, Pedro Pablo Pérez, Julia Perea and Ester...
ElevenPaths Telefónica Invests in Nozomi Networks, a Leading Company in OT and IoT Security The investment reinforces an earlier joint services agreement with Nozomi Networks and ElevenPaths, Telefónica Tech’s cybersecurity company
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 New tool: Masked Extension Control (MEC), don’t trust Windows extensions Windows relies too much on extensions to choose the program that must process a file. For instance, any .doc file will be opened by Word, regardless of its “magic...
Telefónica Tech How I won a Capture the Flag competition by solving challenges using my mobile phone David Soto, winner of the challenge, collecting the prize together with Humbert Ruiz, from 42 Barcelona, Fundación Telefónica’s programming campus. We organised activities aimed at the technical audience in the...
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, 13–20 May VMware fixes critical vulnerabilities in several of its products VMware has issued a security advisory to fix a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting several of its products. Identified as CVE-2022-22972...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 5 – 11 February Microsoft disables macros and MSIX to prevent malware distribution Microsoft has been actively mobilising against multiple malware attacks that use some of its technologies as an entry vector. The products...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 24 — 30 September Two 0-day vulnerabilities exploited in Microsoft Exchange The Vietnamese cybersecurity team GTSC reported two 0-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange three weeks ago through the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) that are...
Marta Mallavibarrena Human factor key in cyber security Dozens of vulnerabilities are discovered every day in the current landscape (an average of 50 in 2021), and attackers are finding new and ingenious ways to exploit them. It...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 17 — 23 September Quantum and BlackCat ransomware use Emotet as entry vector Researchers at AdvIntel have published the results of an investigation reporting that ransomware operators Quantum and BlackCat have adopted the use...
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...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 9 — 16 September Microsoft fixes two 0-day and 63 other vulnerabilities in Patch Tuesday Microsoft has fixed 63 vulnerabilities in its September Patch Tuesday, including two 0-days, one of them actively exploited, and...
Estevenson Solano How to become a cyber resilient organisation Fear, panic and uncertainty are some of the feelings constantly experienced in corporate leadership. In management committees, the big question is frequently asked: is our cyber security working? As...
Marta Mª Padilla Foubelo Name the malware you have, and I’ll tell you which botnet you belong to What is a botnet and how does it work? To begin with, let’s dissociate the word botnet. On the one hand, “bot” means robot and, on the other hand, “net”...
Roberto García Esteban Cloud market trends until 2025 All of us who work in Cloud services are aware that this market is still in a phase of accelerated growth and that more and more companies are taking...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 3 — 9 September 0-day vulnerability in Google Chrome Google released on Friday an emergency patch for the Chrome browser on Windows, Mac and Linux, fixing a 0-day vulnerability, which is being actively exploited. The...
Roberto González Rojo Collaborative solutions to address the challenge of hybrid working Microsoft surveyed 30,000 people in 31 different countries in 2021 as part of its Work Trend Index report, asking participants for their opinion on the most appropriate way to...
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...
