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 Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 30 January – 5 February Chrome will reject Camerfirma’s certificates Google plans to ban and remove Chrome’s support for digital certificates issued by the certification authority (CA) Camerfirma, a Spanish company that is widely deployed...
ElevenPaths What is VPN and What is It For? VPN connections are nothing new, they have been with us for a long time, always linked to the business world. The great versatility and its different uses have made...
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 Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing June 20-26 Millions of User Records Exposed on an Oracle Server Security researcher Anurag Sen has found an exposed database containing millions of records belonging to the company BlueKai, owned by Oracle....
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...
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 Framing Effect: you make your choices depending on how information is presented You have received an alert from cyber intelligence. A terrible and enormous cyberattack is approaching. You must ensure the protection of 600 positions within your organization. You don’t have...
ElevenPaths If you want to change your employees’ security habits, don’t call their will, modify their environment instead You’re in a coffee bar and you need to connect your smartphone to a Wi-Fi, so you check your screen and see the following options. Imagine that you know...
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...
Florence Broderick Our CEO, Pedro Pablo Pérez, will represent Telefonica in the European Cyber Security Organization Brussels and the cybersecurity industry will earmark up to 1.8 billion euros in research TELEFONICA JOINS THE DECISION-MAKING BODIES OF THE EUROPEAN CYBER SECURITY ORGANIZATION AS...
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 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...
