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 Cyber Security Weekly Briefing May 22-28 Windows HTTP protocol stack vulnerability also affects WinRM Security researchers have discovered that the vulnerability affecting the Windows IIS web server (CVE-2021-31166, CVSS 9.8), which resides in the HTTP protocol...
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 Analyzing browser extensions with Neto Console Fifteen days ago we published the first version of Neto, our extensions analyzer in Github. It was published under a free license, also during this time we have worked...
ElevenPaths The Confirmation Bias: we seek the information that confirms our decisions, refusing their opposed evidences Imagine yourself in a lab over an experiment. You’re asked to analyze the following number sequence: 2, 4, 6 This sequence follows a rule. What do you think the rule is?...
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 1–7 january Mail delivery failure on Microsoft Exchange on-premises servers 2 January, Microsoft released a workaround to fix a bug that interrupted email delivery on Microsoft Exchange on-premises servers. The bug is a “year...
Diego Samuel Espitia Using Development Libraries to Deploy Malware Cybercriminals seek strategies to achieve their objectives: in some cases, it is users’ information; in others, connections; sometimes they generate networks of computers under their control (botnets), etc. Any...
Carlos Ávila Using DIARIO Through FOCA For Malware Analysis Web servers are one of the main channels for the spread of malware on the internet. They are frequently attacked in search of security flaws that allow them to...
Gabriel Bergel Mobile Malware, part of the Generation Z Generation Z or “post Millenials” is the demographic group born between 1994 and 2010, mobile malware was born in 2004 with Cabir, the first virus to affect Symbian Series 60 phones....
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing May 8-14 Ransomware attack on a main US oil pipeline US energy company Colonial Pipeline was hit by a ransomware attack on Friday, causing the shutdown of around 8800km of pipelines supplying...
ElevenPaths 4 Tips for a Safe Return to the Workplace It has now been a year since many of us left our physical office behind to embrace remote working. Living rooms and bedrooms became our new offices and meeting rooms,...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Unravelling the Quantum Tangle of Cybersecurity: Quantum Computers, Quantum and Post-Quantum Cryptography Do you know what’ s the difference between quantum computing, quantum cryptography and post-quantum cryptography? Because to be honest, they have (almost) nothing to do with each other. They...
ElevenPaths Tips to Download Apps Securely The arrival of smartphones brought about a paradigm shift in the way we use and consume content through mobile devices. So much so that, from that moment on, they...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing May 1-7 Apple fixes four 0-day vulnerabilities in WebKit Apple released yesterday a security update to fix four 0-day vulnerabilities that could be actively exploited, according to Apple itself. These four flaws...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing April 24-30 BadAlloc – Critical Vulnerabilities in Industrial IoT and OT Devices Microsoft security researchers have discovered 25 critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, collectively referred to as BadAlloc, affecting a wide...
ElevenPaths Do I Really Need an Antivirus? How can standard users protect themselves? In this article we explain what an antivirus is for and how you can be (more) protected.
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón NFT Fever: The Latest Cryptocurrency Killing It Online In May 2007, the digital artist known as Beeple decided to create and publish a new piece of artwork on the Internet every day. True to his word, he...
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 How to bypass antiXSS filter in Chrome and Safari (discovered by ElevenPaths) Modern browsers usually have an antiXSS filter, that protects users from some of the consequences of this kind of attacks. Normally, they block cross site scripting execution, so the...
Florence Broderick HookMe, a tool for intercepting communications with API hooking HookMe is a tool for Windows that allows to intercept system processes when calling APIs needed for network connections. The tool, still in beta, was developed by Manuel Fernández (now...
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...
Florence Broderick Quick and dirty shellcode to binary python script https://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/loader/run_prettify.js If you work with exploits and shellcode, you already know what shellcode is and how to deal with it. Sometimes it comes with exploits in C, Perl, Python…...
