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 Innovation and New Cybersecurity Tools: Security Innovation Days 2020 (Day 3) This was the 8th edition of the Security Innovation Days 2020 so far. Three intense days in which innovation in cybersecurity and the digital transformation have been the essence...
ElevenPaths We Announce Our Digital Operation Centers, Where All Our Digital Services Are Focused The Telefónica Cybersecurity Unit holds its VII Security Innovation Day, under the motto ‘Guards for Digital Lives.’With speakers such as Chema Alonso, Pedro Pablo Pérez, Julia Perea and Ester...
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....
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...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón How to Track COVID-19 Infections, Discover Contacts On WhatsApp or Share Your Genes While Keeping Your Privacy When you sign up for a new social network, such as WhatsApp, you are often asked if you want to find out who among your contacts is already part...
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...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 18 – 24 March HinataBot: new botnet dedicated to DDoS attacks Researchers at Akamai have published a report stating that they have identified a new botnet called HinataBot that has the capability to perform...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 31 October – 6 November Apple fixes 3 0-day vulnerabilities Apple, with the launch of the new iOS 14.2 version, has corrected three 0-day vulnerabilities that would be actively exploited and that would affect iPhone,...
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...
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...
