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...
ElevenPaths Download for Free Our New Book: ‘Irrational Decisions in Cybersecurity: How to Overcome Thinking Errors That Bias Your Judgements’ In the transmedia universe of Blade Runner, replicants are artificial human beings manufactured by bioengineering by Tyrell Corporation. They are physically indistinguishable from a human, except for one detail: their lack of...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: Google’s project to fight election attacks On the night of the primary elections in May, the residents from the county Knox, Tennessee, did not know who had won for about an hour. They did not...
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....
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Nonces, Salts, Paddings and Other Random Herbs for Cryptographic Salad Dressing The chronicles of the kings of Norway has it that King Olaf Haraldsson the Saint disputed the possession of the Hísing island with his neighbour the King of Sweden....
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 9-15 October Microsoft Security Bulletin Microsoft has published its security bulletin for the month of October in which it has fixed a total of 81 bugs in its software, including 4 0-day...
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, 21-28 October Campaigns spreading ERMAC malware A team of Cyble researchers recently discovered a mass phishing campaign aimed at spreading the ERMAC banking trojan. The infection method is based on downloading fake...
José Vicente Catalán What Little Red Riding Hood teaches us about cyber security They say that a good fairy tale will be considered as such if it has many different readings and is able to convey hundreds of different messages. Little Red...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 24 — 30 September Two 0-day vulnerabilities exploited in Microsoft Exchange The Vietnamese cybersecurity team GTSC reported two 0-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange three weeks ago through the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) that are...
Marta Mallavibarrena Human factor key in cyber security Dozens of vulnerabilities are discovered every day in the current landscape (an average of 50 in 2021), and attackers are finding new and ingenious ways to exploit them. It...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 17 — 23 September Quantum and BlackCat ransomware use Emotet as entry vector Researchers at AdvIntel have published the results of an investigation reporting that ransomware operators Quantum and BlackCat have adopted the use...
Emilio Moreno Latency and Edge Computing: Why is it important? For many years we have been in a race to increase the speed of our connections. Ever since those modems that treated us to a symphony of beeps, the...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 9 — 16 September Microsoft fixes two 0-day and 63 other vulnerabilities in Patch Tuesday Microsoft has fixed 63 vulnerabilities in its September Patch Tuesday, including two 0-days, one of them actively exploited, and...
Estevenson Solano How to become a cyber resilient organisation Fear, panic and uncertainty are some of the feelings constantly experienced in corporate leadership. In management committees, the big question is frequently asked: is our cyber security working? As...
Marta Mª Padilla Foubelo Name the malware you have, and I’ll tell you which botnet you belong to What is a botnet and how does it work? To begin with, let’s dissociate the word botnet. On the one hand, “bot” means robot and, on the other hand, “net”...
Roberto García Esteban Cloud market trends until 2025 All of us who work in Cloud services are aware that this market is still in a phase of accelerated growth and that more and more companies are taking...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 3 — 9 September 0-day vulnerability in Google Chrome Google released on Friday an emergency patch for the Chrome browser on Windows, Mac and Linux, fixing a 0-day vulnerability, which is being actively exploited. The...
Roberto González Rojo Collaborative solutions to address the challenge of hybrid working Microsoft surveyed 30,000 people in 31 different countries in 2021 as part of its Work Trend Index report, asking participants for their opinion on the most appropriate way to...
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...
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....
