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 December 12-18 Supply Chain compromise: SolarWinds Orion FireEye researchers have unveiled a major global information theft and espionage operation that takes advantage of the supply chain to gain access to the systems...
Carlos Ávila Your MacOS System Is Also A Target for Cybercrime – Protect It! According to statcounter, Apple’s operating system, macOS (formerly OSX) in particular, has a market share of around 17%, making it the second most widely used desktop operating system. This...
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 November 21-27 Qbot as a prelude to Egregor ransomware infections Researchers at Group-IB security company have issued a statement claiming to have found activity linking the Qbot banking trojan (also known as...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 18 – 24 March HinataBot: new botnet dedicated to DDoS attacks Researchers at Akamai have published a report stating that they have identified a new botnet called HinataBot that has the capability to perform...
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...
Alexandre Maravilla Are SMS for sending verification codes secure? I recently forgot the password to access the personal area of my current bank’s online banking app. I show you the process of resetting the password, carried out from...
ElevenPaths You are less rational than you think when you take decisions under uncertain conditions I propose you the following game of luck: Option A: I give 1,000 € to you with a probability of 100%. Option B: Let’s leave it to heads or tails: if...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 13–20 May VMware fixes critical vulnerabilities in several of its products VMware has issued a security advisory to fix a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting several of its products. Identified as CVE-2022-22972...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 7–13 May Vulnerability in BIG-IP exploited to erase data On May 4th, F5 fixed, among others, a vulnerability affecting BIG-IP devices (CVE-2022-1388 CVSSv3 9.8), which could allow an unauthenticated attacker with network...
David García The new end of passwords Password, password, password... How many can you remember if you don't use a password manager? In fact, do you even use a password manager?
Marta Mª Padilla Foubelo Dark Markets in the internet age What are Dark Markets or Black Markets? This concept has been in the news for a long time as a consequence of clandestine sales. The markets for drugs and...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 24 April – 6 May TLStorm 2 – Vulnerabilities in Aruba and Avaya switches Researchers at Armis have discovered five vulnerabilities in the implementation of TLS communications in multiple models of Aruba and Avaya switches....
Diego Samuel Espitia Where is your company on the cybersecurity journey? Although the cybersecurity path is not linear and each company has its own characteristics, experience has allowed us to classify companies into five levels of cybersecurity evolution. The existence of...
Carlos Ávila IoTM Mobile Applications and The Relevance Of Their Security Almost a year ago in the article “Internet of Health“ I described how incredible is the amount of applications and devices that the medical industry has deployed and will...
ElevenPaths DevSecOps: 7 Key Factors for Implementing Security in Devops DevSecOps, also known as SecDevOps, is a software development philosophy that advocates the adoption of security throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). DevSecOps is more than just a specific...
Antonio Gil Moyano Security in video call applications: Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet There is no doubt that instant messaging programmes have become an essential communication tool in our personal and professional lives. There is also no doubt that video calling applications,...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing June 5-11 Microsoft’s monthly bulletin Microsoft has released its June security bulletin, which fixes 50 vulnerabilities, including remote code execution (RCE) flaws, denial of service issues, privilege escalation and memory corruption issues....
Innovation Marketing Team Empowering women in entrepreneurship: 10 female – led startups in Germany In Germany, only about 15% of startups are initiated by women. Sadly, the figure has been stagnant for years. Additionally, female-led startups receive significantly less Venture Capital than those...
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...
ElevenPaths How to cause a DoS in Windows 8 explorer.exe We have discovered by accident how to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) in Windows 8. It’s a little bug that is present in the last version of the...
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 Showing certificate chain without validating with Windows "certificate store" (C#) Java has its own independent certificate store. If you wish to view natively in Windows a certificate extracted from an APK or JAR file Windows may not find the...