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...
Pablo Alarcón Padellano Securing your Cloud Native Applications in AWS in the New Normal The New Cloud Adoption Reality Yes, we are facing a New Normal, and we are living a new cloud adoption reality as well. Enterprise cloud adoption accelerates in face of...
Diego Samuel Espitia When Preventing a Cyberattack Becomes a Vital Decision In recent years, the number of incidents in critical infrastructure networks and industrial systems has increased significantly. There have been attacks with a high degree of complexity and knowledge...
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....
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón 2019 Won’t Be the Year When Quantum Computers Replace the Cryptography That We All Use What would happen if a fully error corrected quantum computer of several thousands of logical qubits started working today? Public key infrastructures would fall down. The secrets of the...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Most Software Handling Files Overlooks SmartScreen in Windows We analyse how this protection component of Windows Defender works with downloaded files.
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 Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, zkSTARKs and the Future of Privacy in a Decentralised World In the Renaissance Italy, duels between mathematicians were common, but not by crossing steels, but by solving difficult problems. One of the hardest bones to crack at the time...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 5-11 March Mozilla patches two 0-day vulnerabilities Mozilla has issued a security advisory patching two 0-day vulnerabilities that are reportedly being actively exploited and affect Firefox, Focus and Thunderbird. Both vulnerabilities were...
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.
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...