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 Your feelings influence your perception of risk and benefit more than you might think Security is both a feeling and a reality —Bruce Schneier Daniel Gardner starts his book The Science of Fear with the shocking history of US September 11 attacks: And so in...
ElevenPaths Securing a Cloud Environment With a Telco Cloud Provider Nowadays, nobody can deny the remarkable benefits of cloud computing, both infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). Cloud computing drives cost savings, agility to...
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....
Sergio de los Santos A Simple Explanation About SAD DNS and Why It Is a Disaster (or a Blessing) In 2008, Kaminsky shook the foundations of the Internet. A design flaw in the DNS made it possible to fake responses and send a victim wherever the attacker wanted....
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Post-Quantum Future Is Around the Corner and We Are Still Not Prepared Every year we have more powerful computers with a higher calculation capacity, is that fact good or bad? Think twice before giving an answer. It depends. Because if global information...
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...
Marta Mallavibarrena Human factor key in cyber security Dozens of vulnerabilities are discovered every day in the current landscape (an average of 50 in 2021), and attackers are finding new and ingenious ways to exploit them. It...
ElevenPaths Download for Free Our New Book: ‘Irrational Decisions in Cybersecurity: How to Overcome Thinking Errors That Bias Your Judgements’ In the transmedia universe of Blade Runner, replicants are artificial human beings manufactured by bioengineering by Tyrell Corporation. They are physically indistinguishable from a human, except for one detail: their lack of...
Telefónica Tech How does a hybrid cloud work? When it comes to digitalisation and starting the “journey” to the cloud, most companies choose multi-cloud solutions or hybrid clouds as the main technology for safeguarding their databases and...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 18 – 25 November Exploit for ProxyNotShell vulnerabilities published The first publications about new critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server, CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082, which were named ProxyNotShell, were published at the end of September. However,...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 11 – 18 November Security updates for 35 Cisco vulnerabilities Cisco has released a security update that addresses 35 vulnerabilities in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) and Firepower Management Center...
José Pedro Gómez A matter of trust: The need for governance and control of a project Why do I need management figures for the governance of my project? Back in the 13th century, a philosopher once said that an arrow has all the power in itself...
César Cañada Alonso Zero trust, a trend in the cyber security environment Nowadays, the attack surface is larger than before, as there are now more applications, servers, users, etc. in companies. For this reason, it is necessary to limit access, granting...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 5 – 11 November Robin Banks Phishing Platform Reactivated Researchers at IronNet have published the second part of their investigation into the Robin Banks phishing-as-a-service platform. The platform was discovered in June this year...
Daniel Sandmeier Disinformation and fake news: what initiatives do exist to combat them? The phenomenon of disinformation has been causing concern in European societies, including Spain, for several years now. The I Study on disinformation in Spanish society reveals revealing data such...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 28 October – 4 November Vulnerabilities fixed in new OpenSSL version The new 3.0.7 version of OpenSSL, announced last week by the developers of the project, was made public this past Wednesday. The expectation around this...
Martiniano Mallavibarrena Attention: Data leak! (In search of lost data) We have been hearing about “data leaks” on a regular basis for years, both in the media and in our professional or even personal environment. The concept actually covers...
Mark Skelton The Formula for Successful Hybrid Working Optimising cloud-based technologies and enabling a seamless blend between remote and office work will be the key to hybrid working success. To achieve this, any effective hybrid working formula...
Florence Broderick Top of the app charts. Shuabang: automated malware made in China Have you ever wondered how some apps rocket up the charts so quickly? Sometimes you’ll spot one that seems like a curveball, like a pub rock covers band hitting...
Florence Broderick "Not today downloaders": New downloaders techniques in Google Play Downloaders are not new in Android, but lately, they are getting more and more important for attackers as a method to avoid Google Play barriers and malware detection. In...
Florence Broderick Information leakage in Data Loss Prevention leader companies Gartner has released a study that classifies the most important companies that offer Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions depending on their position, strategy, effectiveness, and market leadership. We have made...
