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 Rock appround the clock, our research in DEFCON In the world of Threat Intelligence, determining the attacker’s geographical location of is one of the most valuable data for attribution techniques, even if not perceived like that, this...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 15 – 19 May Vulnerabilities in cloud platforms Otorio’s team of researchers found 11 vulnerabilities affecting different cloud management platform providers. Sierra Wireless, Teltonika Networks and InHand Networks are the affected companies. The security flaws...
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 research: we discover how to avoid SmartScreen via COM Hijacking and with no privileges COM Hijacking technique has a simple theoretical basis, similar to the DLL Hijacking one: What does it happen when an application searches for a non-existent COM object on the...
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....
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 Mechanisms for Everyday Life It is becoming more and more common to find in the general media news related to cyber-attacks, data breaches, privacy scandals and, in short, all kinds of security incidents....
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 1–8 April Critical vulnerability in GitLab allows access to user accounts GitLab has released a security update that fixes a total of 17 vulnerabilities, including a critical vulnerability affecting both GitLab Community...
Sergio de los Santos Tell Me What Data You Request from Apple and I Will Tell You What Kind of Government You Are We recently found out that Spain sent 1,353 government requests for access to Facebook user data in the first half of 2020. Thanks to Facebook’s transparency report for the...
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...
Diego Samuel Espitia Using Development Libraries to Deploy Malware Cybercriminals seek strategies to achieve their objectives: in some cases, it is users’ information; in others, connections; sometimes they generate networks of computers under their control (botnets), etc. Any...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Nonces, Salts, Paddings and Other Random Herbs for Cryptographic Salad Dressing The chronicles of the kings of Norway has it that King Olaf Haraldsson the Saint disputed the possession of the Hísing island with his neighbour the King of Sweden....
Sergio de los Santos A Simple Explanation About SAD DNS and Why It Is a Disaster (or a Blessing) In 2008, Kaminsky shook the foundations of the Internet. A design flaw in the DNS made it possible to fake responses and send a victim wherever the attacker wanted....
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing November 14-20 Malware distribution campaign supplants the identity of Spanish ministries ESET researchers warn of a malware distribution campaign that is impersonating Spanish ministries to distribute a malicious Android application through links...
Andrés Naranjo The Challenge of Online Identity (I): Identity Is the New Perimeter We often find ourselves in situations where we are faced with a mission and, as the mission goes on, we realise that the first choices we made were not...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Rock, Paper, Scissors and Other Ways to Commit Now and Reveal Later Have you ever played rock, paper, scissors? I bet you have. Well, let’s put the tin lid on it: how would you play through the phone? One thing is...
Sergio de los Santos How Traditional CA’s Are Losing Control of Certificates and Possible Reasons Why Chrome Will Have a New Root Store It’s all about trust. This phrase is valid in any field. Money, for example, is nothing more than a transfer of trust, because obviously we trust that for a...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing November 7-13 Links between Vatet, PyXie and Defray777 Researchers from Palo Alto Networks have investigated the families of malware and operational methodologies used by a threat agent that has managed to go...
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...
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...
