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...
Sergio de los Santos What Do Criminals in the Ransomware Industry Recommend so that Ransomware Does Not Affect You? We all know the security recommendations offered by professionals on malware protection. Frequently: use common sense (personally, one of the least applicable and abstract pieces of advice that can...
Sergio de los Santos And the President Said, “Enough Is Enough”. The New Cyber Security Proposals from The White House Joe Biden has signed an Executive Order to improve national cyber security and protect federal government networks more efficiently. The attack on oil pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline, a story...
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....
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...
Diego Samuel Espitia Detecting the Indicators of An Attack We always choose to implement prevention and deterrence rather than containment mechanisms in security. However, the implementation of these mechanisms is not always effective or simple to set up...
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...
ElevenPaths Why you are late delivering all your projects and what you can do to address it Anyone who causes harm by forecasting should be treated as either a fool or a liar. Some forecasters cause more damage to society than criminals. —Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan, 2007 In 1957,...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 25 June – 1 July Kaspersky investigates attacks on industrial control systems Kaspersky researchers have investigated an attack campaign targeting industrial control systems (ICS) of telcos and industrial companies in several countries on the Asian...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths EasyDoH Update Hot off the Press: New Improvements and Functionalities Just a few weeks ago, we launched EasyDoH: an extension for Firefox that simplifies the use of DNS over HTTPS. We have been asked about its improvements and several...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Google report 17% of Microsoft vulnerabilities. Microsoft and Qihoo, 10% Who finds more vulnerabilities in Microsoft products? What percentage of vulnerabilities are discovered by Microsoft, other companies or vulnerability brokers? How many flaws have unknown discoverers? Over this report we have analyzed...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths EasyDoH: our new extension for Firefox that makes DNS over HTTPS simpler A year ago, the IETF has raised to RFC the DNS over HTTPS proposal. This new is more important than it may seem. For two reasons: firstly, it’s a...
Sergio de los Santos Facebook signed one of its apps with a private key shared with other Google Play apps since 2015 Facebook Basics is a Facebook app aimed at countries with poor connectivity, where a free access service to WhatsApp and Facebook is provided. It has been discovered that the Android version...
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...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Five interesting own tools that you may have missed (and a surprise) This time we are going to rehash a blog entry by gathering some of the own tools that we have recently developed and we consider of interest. We summarize...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Uncovering APTualizator: the APT that patches Windows By the end of June 2019, we assisted to an incident were a high number of computers had started to reboot abnormally. In parallel, was detected a file called...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityReport19H1: 45,000 apps removed from Google Play, 2% of them detected by antiviruses Currently, there are a number of reports addressing trends and summaries on security. However, at ElevenPaths we want to make a difference. Our Innovation and Labs team has just...
Sergio de los Santos A government is known by the Apple data it requests Sometimes, governments need to be underpinned by huge corporations to carry out their work. When a threat depends on knowing the identity or gaining access to a potential attacker...
Sergio de los Santos The attack against OpenPGP infrastructure: consequences of a SOB’s actions What is happening with the attack against OpenPGP infrastructure constitutes a disaster, according to the affected people who maintain the protocol. Robert J. Hansen, who communicated the incident, has...
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...
ElevenPaths Telefónica WannaCry File Restorer: How can we recover information deleted by WannaCry? When cyberattacks occur in large organizations, it is crucial to remember where duplicate files are stored, as this information is also subject to infection by a malware virus or...
ElevenPaths Mum, I want to be a hacker The hacker concept is most often associated with male ‘techies’ and ‘geeks’. But why is it so difficult to find female role models in the world of technology? We...
Florence Broderick ElevenPaths Talks: The ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security REGISTER HERE! On Thursday, 19 May, our colleague Sebastian will give a speech about The ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security. The standard of good practice is...
Florence Broderick Mobile Connect winner of the 'Connected Life Awards' Mobile Connect is a multi-operator solution driven by GSMA for universal secure access. The user only needs to link their information to their mobile device solution to have quick...
