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 #CyberSecurityReport19H1: 45,000 apps removed from Google Play, 2% of them detected by antiviruses Currently, there are a number of reports addressing trends and summaries on security. However, at ElevenPaths we want to make a difference. Our Innovation and Labs team has just...
ElevenPaths New report: Twitter botnets detection in sports event We all know that a botnet is a number of Internet-connected devices, each of which is running one or more bots. Botnets can be used to perform DDoS attacks,...
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 The Confirmation Bias: we seek the information that confirms our decisions, refusing their opposed evidences Imagine yourself in a lab over an experiment. You’re asked to analyze the following number sequence: 2, 4, 6 This sequence follows a rule. What do you think the rule is?...
ElevenPaths How the “antimalware” XProtect for MacOS works and why it detects poorly and badly Recently, MacOS included a signature in its integrated antivirus, intended to detect a binary for Windows; but, does this detection make sense? We could think it does, as a...
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 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, 18 – 24 June Microsoft Office 365 and Cloudflare services went down worldwide Multiple web services were interrupted worldwide last Tuesday. The source of these incidents was Microsoft Office 365 on the one hand...
ElevenPaths APTualizator (II): Deconstructing Necurs Rootkit and Tools for Detecting and Removing It This report has been drafted by Roberto Santos and Javier Rascón from the CSIRT-SCC (Security Cyberoperations Center) Research Team, in collaboration with ElevenPaths. At the end of June 2019, a big Spanish company was attacked and thousands of their computers were impacted. Such was...
ElevenPaths The Telco Security Alliance Bolsters Threat Detection Capabilities Through Shared Intelligence Dallas, Singapore and Madrid, February 18th, 2020 – The Telco Security Alliance today announced new collaborative efforts designed to further enhance the ability to detect and eliminate threats from customer environments. Members of the alliance —...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths TheTHE: The Threat Hunting Environment, our tool for researchers TheTHE, a unique tool within its category that allows analysts and hunters to carry out their research tasks in a more agile and practical way.
ElevenPaths New Global DDoS Threat Report Globally, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become more prevalent, powerful and sophisticated. Attackers continue to see great success from using DDoS attacks as a major attack...
Sergio de los Santos Apple introduces up to 14 signatures in XProtect given the malware flood for Mac What is Apple doing about Shlayer malware? We analyze the main tools that MacOS is using to face this threat.
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityReport19H2: Qihoo is the company that most collaborates in the reporting of vulnerabilities in Microsoft products Currently, there are a number of reports addressing trends and summaries on security. However, at ElevenPaths we want to make a difference. Our Innovation and Labs team has just launched another release...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Our Telegram channel CyberSecurityPulse has already a webpage Our Cybersecurity Pulse Telegram channel already has a website. Follow us to keep up to date with the most relevant cybersecurity news.
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...
Sergio de los Santos New App to Clean Metadata More Easily We are not going to repeat the dangers of metadata, since it has been discussed for quite some time now. However, we can try to make its management and cleaning simpler. Some...
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...
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 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...
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....
