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 #CyberSecurityPulse: Oops, I Went Running and I Published Information From Secret Locations The popular fitness tracking app Strava proudly published a 2017 heat map showing activities from its users around the world, but unfortunately, the map revealed locations of the United...
Gabriel Bergel ¿Ransomware in Pandemic or Ransomware Pandemic? No one imagined what could happen in the field of cyber security during the Covid-19 pandemic. Perhaps some colleagues were visionary, or others were basically guided by the statistics...
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 Breaking Out HSTS (and HPKP) on Firefox, IE/Edge and (possibly) Chrome. Our Black Hat research We have been for a long time researching about HSTS, HPKP, certificate pinning and TLS technologies in general. As a collateral effect of this work, we have found some...
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...
ElevenPaths You are less rational than you think when you take decisions under uncertain conditions I propose you the following game of luck: Option A: I give 1,000 € to you with a probability of 100%. Option B: Let’s leave it to heads or tails: if...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón What Is Wrong with Quantum Cryptography That the World’s Largest Intelligence Agencies Discourage Its Use Quantum cryptography does not exist. What everyone understands when the term “quantum cryptography” is mentioned is actually the quantum key distribution (QKD). And this is precisely what I want...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 21-28 October Campaigns spreading ERMAC malware A team of Cyble researchers recently discovered a mass phishing campaign aimed at spreading the ERMAC banking trojan. The infection method is based on downloading fake...
Estevenson Solano What is the Fifth Domain and what is its strategic importance? In recent years, conflict and stability in cyberspace have become a growing concern for many countries and organisations that consider cyberspace as a strategic domain and have strengthened their...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 15-21 October The Noname057(16) group attacks the Spanish Ministry of Defense Last Friday, threat actor Noname057(016) carried out an attack against the website of the Spanish Ministry of Defense, rendering them unavailable...
Juan Carlos Vigo López Secure Digital Workplace: chronicle of a foretold (and necessary) evolution The changes that have taken place in the Digital Workplace lately have put some technological areas under stress, as we have had to adapt to the evolutions during and...
Telefónica Tech Selecting a managed security service provider (MSSP): 5 key factors to keep in mind An Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) offers you a team of seasoned security experts that will work for you at a fraction of the cost of building your security...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 7 — 14 October Critical vulnerability in Fortinet Fortinet has issued a security advisory to its customers urging them to update their FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxy, in order to fix a critical authentication bypass...
Diego Samuel Espitia How to protect your social media accounts Companies and individuals use social networks today to generate new revenue or to sell their services and products, much more than just to communicate with other people or to...
Roberto García Esteban 6 common mistakes when quoting for a Cloud project There is no doubt that Cloud Computing technology brings with it enormous opportunities for companies, but its financial particularities need to be well understood. Traditionally, the IT model was about...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 1 — 7 October Lazarus targets Dell via new FudModule rootkit ESET researchers have reported a new Lazarus campaign targeting a Dell hardware driver using a new rootkit called FudModule. The rootkit uses a...
Roberto García Esteban Cloud Computing is the future of the healthcare sector Healthcare is a sector that is continuously generating a large amount of data. To put it in numbers, every year our National Health System manages 234 million medical consultations...
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 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...
