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 Unravelling the Quantum Tangle of Cybersecurity: Quantum Computers, Quantum and Post-Quantum Cryptography Do you know what’ s the difference between quantum computing, quantum cryptography and post-quantum cryptography? Because to be honest, they have (almost) nothing to do with each other. They...
Sergio de los Santos 26 Reasons Why Chrome Does Not Trust the Spanish CA Camerfirma From the imminent version 90, Chrome will show a certificate error when a user tries to access any website with a certificate signed by Camerfirma. Perhaps it is not...
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 #CyberSecurityPulse: Army Launches Direct Commissioning Program for Civilian Cybersecurity Experts The Army has approved a program to recruit experienced cybersecurity experts directly into the service as cyber officers in an attempt to bolster a growing field that military leaders...
ElevenPaths New tool: Masked Extension Control (MEC), don’t trust Windows extensions Windows relies too much on extensions to choose the program that must process a file. For instance, any .doc file will be opened by Word, regardless of its “magic...
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 Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing September 19-25 New attack vector for vulnerability in Citrix Workspace Pen Test Partners security researcher Ceri Coburn has discovered a new attack vector for the CVE-2020-8207 vulnerability in Citrix Workspace corrected in...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 17 – 23 December SentinelOne: malicious Python package in PyPI Researchers at ReversingLabs have published an investigation in which they report having identified a Python package in PyPI that masquerades as the legitimate SDK...
ElevenPaths WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal, Which One? In the world of smartphones, 2021 began with a piece of news that has left no one indifferent: the update of WhatsApp’s terms and conditions of use. This measure,...
Sergio de los Santos 26 Reasons Why Chrome Does Not Trust the Spanish CA Camerfirma From the imminent version 90, Chrome will show a certificate error when a user tries to access any website with a certificate signed by Camerfirma. Perhaps it is not...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing February 6-12 Attempted contamination of drinking water through a cyber-attack An unidentified threat actor reportedly accessed computer systems at the City of Oldsmar’s water treatment plant in Florida, US, and altered the...
Juan Elosua Tomé Triki: Cookie Collection and Analysis Tool In July 2020, the Spanish Data Protection Agency, following the entry into force of the European General Data Protection Regulation and several consultations with the European Data Protection Committee...
Javier Provecho CNCF’s Harbor (cloud native registry) fixes an information disclosure bug discovered by ElevenPaths (CVE-2020-29662) On December 2nd, ElevenPaths’ CTO SRE team discovered an unauthenticated API within Harbor, a cloud native registry part of the CNCF. It is commonly used as an agnostic Docker...
Gabriel Bergel Digital Zombies and Social Engineering This post is about zombies and social engineering, the image in figure 1 is free and royalty free as long as you credit it, and I loved it. We...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 30 January – 5 February Chrome will reject Camerfirma’s certificates Google plans to ban and remove Chrome’s support for digital certificates issued by the certification authority (CA) Camerfirma, a Spanish company that is widely deployed...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Snitch Cryptography: How to Crack Tamper-Proof Devices Google’s Titan Security Key or YubiKey from Yubico are the ultimate trend in multi-factor authentication security. According to Google’s own website: «The keys have a hardware chip with firmware designed...
Amador Aparicio CVE 2020-35710 or How Your RAS Gateway Secure Reveals Your Organisation’s Intranet Parallels RAS (Remote Application Server) is a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and application delivery solution that enables an organisation’s employees and clients to access and use applications, desktops and...
Diego Samuel Espitia Detecting the Indicators of An Attack We always choose to implement prevention and deterrence rather than containment mechanisms in security. However, the implementation of these mechanisms is not always effective or simple to set up...
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...
ElevenPaths Mum, I want to be a hacker The hacker concept is most often associated with male ‘techies’ and ‘geeks’. But why is it so difficult to find female role models in the world of technology? We...
Florence Broderick New tool: PinPatrol for Chrome. Something more than a plugin, a forensics tool Back in July, we created a new tool for improving the experience using HSTS and HPKP in Firefox. Now it’s time for Chrome. It shows this information in a...
Florence Broderick ElevenPaths Talks: The ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security REGISTER HERE! On Thursday, 19 May, our colleague Sebastian will give a speech about The ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security. The standard of good practice is...
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...
