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...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Nobody on The Internet Knows You Are A Dog, Even If You Use TLS Certificates You may have noticed that most websites have a little padlock on them. If you click on it, a window will pop up stating that “the connection is secure”....
ElevenPaths Everything You Need to Know About SSL/TLS Certificates What is a digital certificate? Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security digital certificate is the most widely used security protocol that enables encrypted data transfer between a web server and a...
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 Ripple20: Internet Broken Down Again Billions of IoT devices have been affected. However, this is not the first time a catastrophe of this magnitude has occurred.
Sergio de los Santos Conti, the Fastest Ransomware in the West: 32 Parallel CPU Threads, but… What for? Conti, the fastest ransomware, is just one example of how this threat is evolving. Discover what tricks it uses and why in this article.
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 March 20-26 Analysis of the new cyber-espionage group SilverFish The PRODAFT Threat Intelligence team (PTI) has discovered a highly sophisticated cybercriminal group called SilverFish, which operates exclusively against large enterprises and public...
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...
Telefónica Tech How does a hybrid cloud work? When it comes to digitalisation and starting the “journey” to the cloud, most companies choose multi-cloud solutions or hybrid clouds as the main technology for safeguarding their databases and...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 18 – 25 November Exploit for ProxyNotShell vulnerabilities published The first publications about new critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server, CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082, which were named ProxyNotShell, were published at the end of September. However,...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 11 – 18 November Security updates for 35 Cisco vulnerabilities Cisco has released a security update that addresses 35 vulnerabilities in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) and Firepower Management Center...
José Pedro Gómez A matter of trust: The need for governance and control of a project Why do I need management figures for the governance of my project? Back in the 13th century, a philosopher once said that an arrow has all the power in itself...
César Cañada Alonso Zero trust, a trend in the cyber security environment Nowadays, the attack surface is larger than before, as there are now more applications, servers, users, etc. in companies. For this reason, it is necessary to limit access, granting...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 5 – 11 November Robin Banks Phishing Platform Reactivated Researchers at IronNet have published the second part of their investigation into the Robin Banks phishing-as-a-service platform. The platform was discovered in June this year...
Daniel Sandmeier Disinformation and fake news: what initiatives do exist to combat them? The phenomenon of disinformation has been causing concern in European societies, including Spain, for several years now. The I Study on disinformation in Spanish society reveals revealing data such...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 28 October – 4 November Vulnerabilities fixed in new OpenSSL version The new 3.0.7 version of OpenSSL, announced last week by the developers of the project, was made public this past Wednesday. The expectation around this...
Martiniano Mallavibarrena Attention: Data leak! (In search of lost data) We have been hearing about “data leaks” on a regular basis for years, both in the media and in our professional or even personal environment. The concept actually covers...
Mark Skelton The Formula for Successful Hybrid Working Optimising cloud-based technologies and enabling a seamless blend between remote and office work will be the key to hybrid working success. To achieve this, any effective hybrid working formula...
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…...
