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...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, zkSTARKs and the Future of Privacy in a Decentralised World In the Renaissance Italy, duels between mathematicians were common, but not by crossing steels, but by solving difficult problems. One of the hardest bones to crack at the time...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing September 5-11 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Microsoft published on Tuesday its newsletter with updates for the month of September. In this new bulletin a total of 129 vulnerabilities have been corrected in 15...
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: SKrYPtEd, your Skype conversations local database protector Did you know your Skype conversations are stored in plaintext in your hard drive? Did you know anyone could just grab them with some kind of malware and upload...
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...
ElevenPaths The hugest collection of usernames and passwords has been filtered…or not (II) Over the last entry we focused on analyzing the content of these files from a critical point of view, this is: on clarifying that when a massive leak freeing...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 22–29 April New malicious RedLine distribution campaign Researchers at BitDefender have published a report on a new RedLine malware distribution campaign. According to the analysts, malicious actors are using the RIG Exploit...
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, 7–13 May Vulnerability in BIG-IP exploited to erase data On May 4th, F5 fixed, among others, a vulnerability affecting BIG-IP devices (CVE-2022-1388 CVSSv3 9.8), which could allow an unauthenticated attacker with network...
David García The new end of passwords Password, password, password... How many can you remember if you don't use a password manager? In fact, do you even use a password manager?
Marta Mª Padilla Foubelo Dark Markets in the internet age What are Dark Markets or Black Markets? This concept has been in the news for a long time as a consequence of clandestine sales. The markets for drugs and...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 24 April – 6 May TLStorm 2 – Vulnerabilities in Aruba and Avaya switches Researchers at Armis have discovered five vulnerabilities in the implementation of TLS communications in multiple models of Aruba and Avaya switches....
Diego Samuel Espitia Where is your company on the cybersecurity journey? Although the cybersecurity path is not linear and each company has its own characteristics, experience has allowed us to classify companies into five levels of cybersecurity evolution. The existence of...
Carlos Ávila IoTM Mobile Applications and The Relevance Of Their Security Almost a year ago in the article “Internet of Health“ I described how incredible is the amount of applications and devices that the medical industry has deployed and will...
ElevenPaths DevSecOps: 7 Key Factors for Implementing Security in Devops DevSecOps, also known as SecDevOps, is a software development philosophy that advocates the adoption of security throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). DevSecOps is more than just a specific...
Antonio Gil Moyano Security in video call applications: Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet There is no doubt that instant messaging programmes have become an essential communication tool in our personal and professional lives. There is also no doubt that video calling applications,...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing June 5-11 Microsoft’s monthly bulletin Microsoft has released its June security bulletin, which fixes 50 vulnerabilities, including remote code execution (RCE) flaws, denial of service issues, privilege escalation and memory corruption issues....
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 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...
