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...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths ChainLock, A Linux Tool for Locking Down Important Files Let’s say you have a valuable file on your computer, such as a bitcoin wallet file (“wallet.dat”), or some other file with sensitive information, and you decide put a...
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...
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 October 17-23 New banking trojan called Vizom IBM Security Trusteer’s research team has published a report analysing the new “Brazilian family” banking Trojan called Vizom. This malicious software uses similar techniques to...
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...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Top 10 TED Talks to Learn about Cyber Security Discover the top 10 talks to learn about cybersecurity and, at the same time, some ways to improve your own presentations.
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....
Gabriel Bergel Decepticons vs. Covid-19: The Ultimate Battle Social engineering is being used more than ever by cybercriminals. What do Decepticons have to do with it?
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón 20 Questions about Covid-19 Tracing Apps Covid-19 tracking apps may raise many questions about citizens' privacy and security. We solve some of them in this article.
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Zoom Seeks to Be More Secure and Purchases Keybase The most downloaded video call app during the quarantine responds to criticism for its serious security and privacy issues.
David García Bestiary of a Poorly Managed Memory (IV) What happens when we use uninitialized memory? Read this article and find out about the latest developments in memory management.
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.
Diego Samuel Espitia Business Continuity Plan: From Paper to Action How many Business Continuity Plans considered a global pandemic among the possible causes of business blockage?
Rafael Ortiz How to Make API REST Requests to Tor Hidden Services in an Android APK If you are a developer and want to test your Android app with a Tor hidden service, here's how.
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths CapaciCard Is Already Working on iPhone Can you imagine authenticating yourself or authorizing a payment by simply swiping a card on your iPhone screen? CapaciCard makes it possible.
David García Bestiary of a Poorly Managed Memory (III) Our expert David Garcia explains some consequences of poor memory management such as dangling pointers or memory leaks.
Diego Samuel Espitia TypoSquatting: Using Your Brain to Trick You Our brain capacity is outstanding but it also creates some cybersecurity risks. Discover why in this post.
ElevenPaths Squeezing the numbers and facts of Google’s annual Android security report Last month Google published its third annual security report on Android’s security protections, aiming to send a clear message to the world about mobile malware (or Potentially Harmful Applications...
Florence Broderick Telefónica and ElevenPaths announce new market leading security offering following key sector agreements
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...
ElevenPaths How to cause a DoS in Windows 8 explorer.exe We have discovered by accident how to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) in Windows 8. It’s a little bug that is present in the last version of the...
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...
