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 Why you are late delivering all your projects and what you can do to address it Anyone who causes harm by forecasting should be treated as either a fool or a liar. Some forecasters cause more damage to society than criminals. —Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan, 2007 In 1957,...
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....
ElevenPaths Dumpster diving in Bin Laden’s computers: malware, passwords, warez and metadata (II) What would you expect from a computer network that belongs to a terrorists group? Super-encrypted material? Special passwords? The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on 1 November 2017 released additional...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 16-22 October Zerodium interested in acquiring 0-days of Windows VPN software Information security company Zerodium has reported its willingness to purchase 0-day vulnerabilities targeting VPN service software for Windows systems: ExpressVPN, NordVPN...
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 Top 4 Programming Languages for Beginners Have you set yourself new challenges this year but don’t know where to start? How would you like to become an expert in programming? We know that, at first,...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Telefónica Tech’s Cybersecurity Unit Becomes Part of The European Commission’s Cybersecurity Atlas Telefónica Tech’s Innovation and Laboratory Area in cyber security has been included as part of the European Commission’s Cybersecurity Atlas, a knowledge management platform that maps, classifies, visualises and...
Florence Broderick ElevenPaths acquires Gesconsultor (Gesdatos), the leading Governance, Risk & Compliance platform Spain GesConsultor will be offered internationally as part of Telefónica’s security services portfolio. The platform enables organisations to support business strategy, improve operating performance, mitigate operational risks and ensure regulatory compliance. GOVERTIS...
Florence Broderick Introducing Mobile Connect – the new standard in digital authentication The Mobile Operators hold the future of digital authentication in our hands, and so do our customers. The consumers will no longer need to create and manage multiple user...
Florence Broderick Trend Ransomware Report 21st Century ExtortionThe scourge of crypto-ransomware malware featured prominently in threat predictions for 2015, and the 165% increase reported in Q1 2015 indicate that these fears were well founded....
Florence Broderick Top of the app charts. Shuabang: automated malware made in China Have you ever wondered how some apps rocket up the charts so quickly? Sometimes you’ll spot one that seems like a curveball, like a pub rock covers band hitting...
Florence Broderick The Turkish behind pr0nClicker, uploads badware to Google Play for the fourth time During last week, the Turkish (maybe a gang, maybe just a person) behind the pr0nClickers malware got to avoid Google Play defenses and upload again dozens of fake apps...
Florence Broderick Studying the trojan apps for Android used in Hacking Team leak Between the information leaked these days about #HackingTeam, several trojan Android APK files have been found. A first approach with Tacyt shows interesting relations with legitimate apps, the ones leaked a...
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 Telefónica Trend Report: The PoS Malware threat in 2015 A few weeks ago in the United Kingdom, cashless payments overtook the use of notes and coins for the first time. This is the latest demonstration that, while worldwide...
Florence Broderick "Incident Response Management": Attitudes of European Enterprises We have recently sponsored a new research study conducted by Pierre Audoin Consultants, PAC, focused on “Incident Response Management”. The results detailed are compiled from a survey conducted among...
Florence Broderick "Alarmware" in Google Play: will not stop an alarm until you install another malicious app In ElevenPaths, we have spotted a few samples of downloaders in Google Play that work in a very special way. The app hides its icon and installs a service...
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…...
