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...
Alejandro Maroto Steps to move security solutions forward in the face of current world challenges Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk recently addressed the Telefónica Global Security Summit with some thoughts to share on the direction of security and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic....
Sergio de los Santos Pay When You Get Infected by Ransomware? Many Shades of Grey The Internet is full of articles explaining why ransomware should not be paid. And they are probably right, but if you don’t make a difference between the type of ransomware and...
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....
Sergio de los Santos Conti, the Fastest Ransomware in the West: 32 Parallel CPU Threads, but… What for? Conti, the fastest ransomware, is just one example of how this threat is evolving. Discover what tricks it uses and why in this article.
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Snitch Cryptography: How to Crack Tamper-Proof Devices Google’s Titan Security Key or YubiKey from Yubico are the ultimate trend in multi-factor authentication security. According to Google’s own website: «The keys have a hardware chip with firmware designed...
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, 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, 6 – 12 May Security updates vulnerabilities in Fortinet products Fortinet has announced a set of security updates that fix up to a total of 9 vulnerabilities, 2 of which are considered high severity...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing January 23-29 Attack against SonicWall by exploiting a possible 0-day in its VPN appliances Firewall manufacturer SonicWall has issued a security alert warning that it has detected a sophisticated attack against...
ElevenPaths 4 Tips to Secure Your Data We surf the Internet on a daily basis. Many of us are already considered digital natives. Yes, it is almost an extension of us, but are we really aware...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityReport20H2: Microsoft Corrects Many More Vulnerabilities, But Discovers Far Fewer There are many reports on security trends and summaries, but at ElevenPaths we want to make a difference. From the Innovation and Laboratory team, we have just launched our...
Carlos Ávila Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and its Mobile Applications For scientists and researchers, optimising time in a laboratory nowadays plays a key role in processing and delivering results. There are applications that have specialised capabilities for R&D laboratories,...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing January 16-22 SolarWinds Update New details have been released about the software supply chain compromise unveiled in December. FireEye researchers have published an analysis that puts the focus on the threat actor called...
Antonio Gil Moyano Homeworking: Balancing Corporate Control and Employee Privacy (II) As a continuation of the first article in which we saw both the regulation of homeworking and the security and privacy measures in this modality, in this second issue...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Plausibly Deniable Encryption or How to Reveal A Key Without Revealing It When the secret police arrested Andrea at the airport checkpoint, she thought it was a mere formality reserved for all foreign citizens. When they searched her luggage and found...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing January 9-15 Sunburst shows code matches with Russian-associated malware Researchers have found that the Sunburst malware used during the SolarWinds supply chain attack is consistent in its characteristics with Kazuar, a .NET...
Sergio de los Santos The Attack on SolarWinds Reveals Two Nightmares: What Has Been Done Right and What Has Been Done Wrong All cyber security professionals now know at least part of what was originally thought to be “just” an attack on SolarWinds, which has just truned out to be one...
Antonio Gil Moyano Homeworking: Balancing Corporate Control and Employee Privacy (I) At this point in time and looking back on 2020, nobody would have imagined the advance in the digitalisation of organisations and companies due to the irruption of homeworking...
ElevenPaths Squeezing the numbers and facts of Google’s annual Android security report Last month Google published its third annual security report on Android’s security protections, aiming to send a clear message to the world about mobile malware (or Potentially Harmful Applications...
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 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 FOCA Final Version, the ultimate FOCA You all know FOCA. Over the years, it had a great acceptation and became quite popular. Eleven Path has killed the FOCA to turn it into a professional service,...
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...
