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...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 15 – 19 May Vulnerabilities in cloud platforms Otorio’s team of researchers found 11 vulnerabilities affecting different cloud management platform providers. Sierra Wireless, Teltonika Networks and InHand Networks are the affected companies. The security flaws...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing February 13-19 Privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows Defender SentinelLabs researcher Kasif Dekel has discovered a new vulnerability in Windows Defender that could have been active for more than twelve years. The flaw,...
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...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Nonces, Salts, Paddings and Other Random Herbs for Cryptographic Salad Dressing The chronicles of the kings of Norway has it that King Olaf Haraldsson the Saint disputed the possession of the Hísing island with his neighbour the King of Sweden....
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...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón DataCOVID-19: Fighting the Coronavirus by Using the Approximate Location Data of Your Smartphone Find the answers to your questions about how the Spanish Government is using Big Data to improve research on the COVID-19 pandemic.
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing January 2-8 SolarWinds Update To end the year, Microsoft published an update of its findings regarding the impact of the SolarWinds incident on its systems. In this release, it emphasizes that neither...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Cyber Security State: Top Threats, Risks and Vulnerabilities There are many reports on security trends and summaries, but at Telefónica Tech we want to make a difference. The Innovation and Lab team has just launched our own...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 11 – 17 February Apple fixes actively exploited 0-day Apple has issued several security advisories to fix an actively exploited 0-day vulnerability. The security flaw, listed as CVE-2023-23529, is a type confusion in the browser’s...
Marta Mallavibarrena Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and Cyber Security Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a frequent topic on this blog. Almost all predictions of technological trends for the coming years include it as one of the key advances. In...
Nacho Palou We are now live! Discover the new Telefónica Tech website We have redesigned the Telefónica Tech website to represent who we are as a digital solutions integrator. We also want to share what we do, who is behind it...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 4 – 10 February Critical vulnerability in Atlassian Jira Atlassian has issued a security advisory in which it releases fixes to resolve a critical vulnerability in Jira Service Management Server and Data Center. According to...
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...
Roberto García Esteban Metacloud: a cloud of clouds The digitalisation of society is rapidly advancing, mainly driven by the development of the internet and Cloud technology. Companies are rushing to adopt these new technologies in pursuit of...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 21 January – 3 February LockBit Green: new LockBit variant Researchers at vx-underground have recently detected that a new ransomware variant, called LockBit Green, is being used by the LockBit ransomware handlers. This new variant...
Martiniano Mallavibarrena Cybersecurity in films: myth vs. reality with 10 examples The multiple aspects of cybersecurity (attacks, investigations, defence, disloyal employees, negligence, etc.) have been part of the plot of countless movies and TV series for years. In today’s society,...
Daniel Pous Montardit Resilience, key to Cloud-Native systems In the first post of the Cloud-Native series, What is a Cloud-Native Application?, or what it means that my software is Cloud Native, we presented resilience as one of...
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...
