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 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 Cyber Security in Times of Pandemic: How Has Confinement Affected Our Digital Security? The pandemic has accelerated the transition to a digital life, and with it, cyber-attacks against users and businesses have risen. The most frequent attack, which is the most common...
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 #CyberSecurityPulse: Changing stereotypes in the security sector Ripples of outrage spread across the cybersecurity industry last week after women in red evening gowns were seen promoting a product at the Infosecurity Europe 2018 conference. The event’s...
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...
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 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...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths ChainLock, A Linux Tool for Locking Down Important Files Let’s say you have a valuable file on your computer, such as a bitcoin wallet file (“wallet.dat”), or some other file with sensitive information, and you decide put a...
Florence Broderick SmartID and SealSign on Mobile World Congress 2015 In this increasingly digital world, where users’ identity and privacy are exposed to continuous threats, from Telefónica and ElevenPaths have created a secure digital ecosystem which allows users...
Florence Broderick JSDialers: apps calling premium rate numbers (with new techniques) in Google Play During last year, a lot of “made in Spain” malware was found in Google Play. It was basically malware that tried to silently subscribe the victim to premium SMS numbers. From a while...
Florence Broderick New Tool: JavaRuleSetter for creating Devployment Rule Sets in Java Oracle introduced the notion of whitelisting in Java 7 update 40. It was called Deployment Rule Set. In Java update 51, it introduced a new feature, that was close...
Florence Broderick Winners of the Latch Plugins Contest As you know, last 16th of October 2014, as part of our annual “Security Innovation Day” event, we announced the launch of the “Latch Plugins Contest“, the first Latch...
Florence Broderick Detected some "clickers" in Google Play simulating apps and games During the last days, some apps have appeared in Google Play that work like “clickers”, between them an app simulating Talking Tom (that was online for just a few...
Florence Broderick News: ownCloud Latch plugin We have uploaded to GitHub our latest plugin for ownCloud. It makes it easier to use Latch technology with this free software similar to widely used Dropbox. You can...
Florence Broderick 5.500 apps potentially vulnerable to Man in the Middle attacks in Google Play It has been discovered than AppsGeyser, an app creator “with just a few clicks”, deactivates the SSL certificate validation in its apps. An attacker on the same network as...
Florence Broderick Latch USB Monitor: New tool to monitor PNP devices with Latch Latch USB Monitor is a tool that monitors Plug ‘n Play device (PNP) changes in Windows and gives the user the possibility of tracking incoming devices, and react accordingly...
Florence Broderick PhpMyAdmin fixes a XSS detected by ElevenPaths (CVE-2014-9219) On November 28th, while our Faast team was developing an intrusion module for PhpMyAdmin MySQL manager, we detected a new cross site scripting vulnerability not known so far in this...
Florence Broderick Shuabang botnet: BlackHat App Store Optimization (BlackASO) in Google Play ElevenPaths has detected malicious apps in Google Play (already removed by Google), aimed at performing Shuabang techniques, or BlackASO (Black Hat App Store Optimization). These malicious apps link fake...
ElevenPaths Mum, I want to be a hacker The hacker concept is most often associated with male ‘techies’ and ‘geeks’. But why is it so difficult to find female role models in the world of technology? We...
Florence Broderick New tool: PinPatrol for Chrome. Something more than a plugin, a forensics tool Back in July, we created a new tool for improving the experience using HSTS and HPKP in Firefox. Now it’s time for Chrome. It shows this information in a...
Florence Broderick Mobile Connect winner of the 'Connected Life Awards' Mobile Connect is a multi-operator solution driven by GSMA for universal secure access. The user only needs to link their information to their mobile device solution to have quick...
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 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...
