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...
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...
Martiniano Mallavibarrena The New Digital Workforce and The Risks Around Robotics Process Automation (RPA) In recent years, many companies in different sectors have chosen to base their digital transformation on RPA – Robot Process Automation, which has facilitated the creation of hundreds of...
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....
David García Bestiary of a Poorly Managed Memory (II) Our expert David Garcia shows what happens when the same block of reserved memory is released twice, the so-called double free.
ElevenPaths GSMA IoT Security Champion: Award to our IoT Security team We have a lot to be happy about! Our IoT Security team, dedicated to cybersecurity specialized in the increasingly relevant world of the Internet of Things, has received a...
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...
Sergio de los Santos Facebook signed one of its apps with a private key shared with other Google Play apps since 2015 Facebook Basics is a Facebook app aimed at countries with poor connectivity, where a free access service to WhatsApp and Facebook is provided. It has been discovered that the Android version...
Miguel Ángel Martos Has the Office as We Know It Come to an End? 2020 has had a difficult start. We have learned that what was “usual” may not be the best. We should reconsider this idea of “the office” as the centre...
Estevenson Solano Metaverse (II): the challenge of building a virtual space that is secure, inclusive and beneficial to everyone As we learned in the previous article of this series, impact of the metaverse on disinformation, child security, its evolution and its potential to spread discrimination and inequalities will...
Aarón Jornet Evolution of Spear-Phishing Techniques of Notorious Threat Groups and malware used In recent years, different campaigns and threats have been metabolised and their entry vector has been the same, the e-mail. This initial access always seems to be the most...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 8 – 14 April Apple fixes two new actively exploited 0-day vulnerabilities Apple has released new security advisories about two new actively exploited 0-day vulnerabilities affecting iPhones, Macs and iPads. First, there is the...
Estevenson Solano Metaverse (I): threats in an immersive, multi-sensory environment While the discussion and excitement around the metaverse is growing, there are also feelings of doubt, fear, concern and uncertainty about the potential risks in an environment where the...
María Riesgo Technology and the young: how to turn dangers into opportunities The technology world is moving extremely fast. If we look back, we would have never imagined the possibility of connecting to a computer without interrupting the landline phone at...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 25 – 31 March GitHub exposes its RSA SSH host key by mistake GitHub announced last Friday that they had replaced their RSA SSH host key used to protect Git operations. According to the...
Roberto García Esteban Cloud terms you can’t miss It was George Favaloro and Sean O’Sullivan, managers of Compaq Computer, who first used the expression “Cloud Computing” in 1996, and since then, the term has become so popular...
Nacho Palou Cybercrime, a constant threat to all types of companies Cyber threats have existed since technology began to be used in companies and organizations. But the evolution of the technology world in the 21st century has changed the landscape:...
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...
Nacho Palou 5G connectivity: Four real and practical use cases According to data from GSMA, collected by the publication Redes & Telecom, by the end of 2022, over one billion 5G connections had been surpassed worldwide; this figure will...
Florence Broderick New tool: Maltego transforms for Tacyt If you are a Maltego user, you already know how intuitive and useful it is for researching and analyzing information. You may know as well that Maltego allows to...
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 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 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 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...
