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 Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing July 4-10 RCE Vulnerability in F5’s BIG-IP (CVE-2020-5902) Last Wednesday a new critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability (CVE-2020-5902 CVSSv3 10) was published for F5’s Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI). This vulnerability allows...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón A Trillion-Dollar on Offer to the Puzzle Solver Are you a fan of mathematical puzzles? Well, here’s a lucrative one… but hard to beat! If you discover a method to crack the hashes used in Blockchain, you...
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....
Sergio de los Santos The attack against OpenPGP infrastructure: consequences of a SOB’s actions What is happening with the attack against OpenPGP infrastructure constitutes a disaster, according to the affected people who maintain the protocol. Robert J. Hansen, who communicated the incident, has...
Carlos Ávila The Pharmaceutical Retail Industry and Their Mobile Applications Are users of pharmaceutical applications safe in terms of data security and privacy? Discover this analysis from our CSA Carlos Ávila.
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...
Nacho Palou Typosquatting: how to detect and protect yourself It's not always easy to detect and protect yourself from typosquatting. These recommendations from our experts help you reduce risk.
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 1–7 january Mail delivery failure on Microsoft Exchange on-premises servers 2 January, Microsoft released a workaround to fix a bug that interrupted email delivery on Microsoft Exchange on-premises servers. The bug is a “year...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Cyber Security State: Top Threats, Risks and Vulnerabilities There are many reports on security trends and summaries, but at Telefónica Tech we want to make a difference. The Innovation and Lab team has just launched our own...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 11 – 17 February Apple fixes actively exploited 0-day Apple has issued several security advisories to fix an actively exploited 0-day vulnerability. The security flaw, listed as CVE-2023-23529, is a type confusion in the browser’s...
Marta Mallavibarrena Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and Cyber Security Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a frequent topic on this blog. Almost all predictions of technological trends for the coming years include it as one of the key advances. In...
Nacho Palou We are now live! Discover the new Telefónica Tech website We have redesigned the Telefónica Tech website to represent who we are as a digital solutions integrator. We also want to share what we do, who is behind it...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 4 – 10 February Critical vulnerability in Atlassian Jira Atlassian has issued a security advisory in which it releases fixes to resolve a critical vulnerability in Jira Service Management Server and Data Center. According to...
Telefónica Tech How I won a Capture the Flag competition by solving challenges using my mobile phone David Soto, winner of the challenge, collecting the prize together with Humbert Ruiz, from 42 Barcelona, Fundación Telefónica’s programming campus. We organised activities aimed at the technical audience in the...
Roberto García Esteban Metacloud: a cloud of clouds The digitalisation of society is rapidly advancing, mainly driven by the development of the internet and Cloud technology. Companies are rushing to adopt these new technologies in pursuit of...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 21 January – 3 February LockBit Green: new LockBit variant Researchers at vx-underground have recently detected that a new ransomware variant, called LockBit Green, is being used by the LockBit ransomware handlers. This new variant...
Martiniano Mallavibarrena Cybersecurity in films: myth vs. reality with 10 examples The multiple aspects of cybersecurity (attacks, investigations, defence, disloyal employees, negligence, etc.) have been part of the plot of countless movies and TV series for years. In today’s society,...
Daniel Pous Montardit Resilience, key to Cloud-Native systems In the first post of the Cloud-Native series, What is a Cloud-Native Application?, or what it means that my software is Cloud Native, we presented resilience as one of...
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 How to bypass antiXSS filter in Chrome and Safari (discovered by ElevenPaths) Modern browsers usually have an antiXSS filter, that protects users from some of the consequences of this kind of attacks. Normally, they block cross site scripting execution, so the...
Florence Broderick HookMe, a tool for intercepting communications with API hooking HookMe is a tool for Windows that allows to intercept system processes when calling APIs needed for network connections. The tool, still in beta, was developed by Manuel Fernández (now...
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 Quick and dirty shellcode to binary python script https://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/loader/run_prettify.js If you work with exploits and shellcode, you already know what shellcode is and how to deal with it. Sometimes it comes with exploits in C, Perl, Python…...
