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...
Andrés Naranjo The Challenge of Online Identity (I): Identity Is the New Perimeter We often find ourselves in situations where we are faced with a mission and, as the mission goes on, we realise that the first choices we made were not...
ElevenPaths New report: Twitter botnets detection in sports event We all know that a botnet is a number of Internet-connected devices, each of which is running one or more bots. Botnets can be used to perform DDoS attacks,...
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 Technically analysing a SIEM… are your logs secure? The SIEMs are usually utilized within highly secure of regulated environments, where regular log monitoring and analysis is required to search for security incidents. They help to make...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: Biggest-Ever DDoS Attack Hits Github Website At the end of 2016, a DDoS attack on DynDNS blocked major Internet sites such as Twitter, Spotify and PayPal. The Mirai botnet was used to take advantage of...
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...
Gabriel Bergel Risk Analysis Applied to COVID-19 Our CSA Gabriel Bergel shows you how to apply the Risk Analysis methodology to the management of the COVID-19 threat.
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Are You Crypto-Agile to Respond Quickly to Changing Cyberthreats? A business is considered agile if it is able to respond quickly to market changes, adapt to maintain stability. However, without cryptography there is no security and without security...
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 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 New tool: PinPatrol for Chrome. Something more than a plugin, a forensics tool Back in July, we created a new tool for improving the experience using HSTS and HPKP in Firefox. Now it’s time for Chrome. It shows this information in a...
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...