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 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, 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 Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing June 20-26 Millions of User Records Exposed on an Oracle Server Security researcher Anurag Sen has found an exposed database containing millions of records belonging to the company BlueKai, owned by Oracle....
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Encryption That Preserves The Format To Ensure The Privacy Of Financial And Personal Data Your personal information swarms through thousands of databases of public and private organizations. How do you protect its confidentiality so that it does not fall into the wrong hands?...
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...
Telefónica Tech Top 3 most read cybersecurity posts this year In our weekly summer compilation with the most relevant and most read contents of the Telefónica Tech blog since the beginning of this year, this time we bring you...
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...
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...
Nikolaos Tsouroulas NextDefense: The ultimate cyber defence solution for any organisation It was on a Wednesday at 17:00h when the CIO of a potential customer, who was visiting our offices, asked for a meeting with the product team before leaving....
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...
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”....
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...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 27 February – 5 March HAFNIUM attacks Microsoft Exchange servers with 0-day exploits Microsoft has detected the use of multiple 0-day exploits to carry out targeted attacks against on-premise versions of Microsoft Exchange Server (2013,...
Juan Elosua Tomé New FARO Version: Create Your Own Plugin and Contribute to Its Evolution We are pleased to announce the latest version of FARO, our open-source tool for detecting sensitive information, which we will briefly introduce in the following post. Nowadays, any organisation can...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Telefónica Tech’s Cybersecurity Unit Becomes Part of The European Commission’s Cybersecurity Atlas Telefónica Tech’s Innovation and Laboratory Area in cyber security has been included as part of the European Commission’s Cybersecurity Atlas, a knowledge management platform that maps, classifies, visualises and...
Franco Piergallini Guida How to Trick Apps That Use Deep Learning for Melanoma Detection One of the great achievements of deep learning is image classification using convolutional neural networks. In the article “The Internet of Health” we find a clear example where this...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing February 13-19 Privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows Defender SentinelLabs researcher Kasif Dekel has discovered a new vulnerability in Windows Defender that could have been active for more than twelve years. The flaw,...
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...
Florence Broderick Our CEO, Pedro Pablo Pérez, will represent Telefonica in the European Cyber Security Organization Brussels and the cybersecurity industry will earmark up to 1.8 billion euros in research TELEFONICA JOINS THE DECISION-MAKING BODIES OF THE EUROPEAN CYBER SECURITY ORGANIZATION AS...
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 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 Android malware not only posing as Word documents… but Excel as well China is a paradise for “SMS stealing malware” for Android. These programs steal your SMS inbox, notebook… The only “problem” for malware creators is to induce users to...
