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 Telefónica Invests in Nozomi Networks, a Leading Company in OT and IoT Security The investment reinforces an earlier joint services agreement with Nozomi Networks and ElevenPaths, Telefónica Tech’s cybersecurity company
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths Joins OpenSSF to Enhance Open Source Software Security This new Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) brings together leading technology companies such as Microsoft, Google, Red Hat and IBM, among others.It combines efforts from the Core Infrastructure Initiative,...
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 New tool: “Web browsers HSTS entries eraser”, our Metasploit post exploitation module This module deletes the HSTS/HPKP database of the main browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari and wget in Windows, Mac and Linux. This allows an attacker to perform man in...
ElevenPaths New tool: SKrYPtEd, your Skype conversations local database protector Did you know your Skype conversations are stored in plaintext in your hard drive? Did you know anyone could just grab them with some kind of malware and upload...
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 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...
Diego Samuel Espitia TCP/IP Stack Gruyere In May 2020 during the most complicated phase of the global pandemic, we were told that the internet was broken as a result of bugs (called Ripple20) affecting millions...
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...
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 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 Android malware not only posing as Word documents… but Excel as well China is a paradise for “SMS stealing malware” for Android. These programs steal your SMS inbox, notebook… The only “problem” for malware creators is to induce users to...
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...
