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...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Are You Crypto-Agile to Respond Quickly to Changing Cyberthreats? A business is considered agile if it is able to respond quickly to market changes, adapt to maintain stability. However, without cryptography there is no security and without security...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing May 22-28 Windows HTTP protocol stack vulnerability also affects WinRM Security researchers have discovered that the vulnerability affecting the Windows IIS web server (CVE-2021-31166, CVSS 9.8), which resides in the HTTP protocol...
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....
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 3 – 9 December Ninth Chrome 0-day of the year Google has released Chrome 108.0.5359.94 for Mac and Linux, and 108.0.5359.94/.95 for Windows, which fixes a 0-day vulnerability, the ninth detected in Chrome this...
ElevenPaths New tools: Metashield Bots, analyzing and cleaning metadata for everyone, from everywhere You all know Metashield. Basically, it is a technology from our own to analyze and clean metadata, that is used in several of our own products. Although metadata seems...
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...
Nacho Palou Typosquatting: how to detect and protect yourself It's not always easy to detect and protect yourself from typosquatting. These recommendations from our experts help you reduce risk.
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 28 February – 4 March Daxin: highly sophisticated backdoor Researchers at Symantec have published a paper reporting a new backdoor they have called Daxin, which they attribute to actors linked to China. According to Symantec,...
Florence Broderick SmartID and SealSign on Mobile World Congress 2015 In this increasingly digital world, where users’ identity and privacy are exposed to continuous threats, from Telefónica and ElevenPaths have created a secure digital ecosystem which allows users...
Florence Broderick JSDialers: apps calling premium rate numbers (with new techniques) in Google Play During last year, a lot of “made in Spain” malware was found in Google Play. It was basically malware that tried to silently subscribe the victim to premium SMS numbers. From a while...
Florence Broderick New Tool: JavaRuleSetter for creating Devployment Rule Sets in Java Oracle introduced the notion of whitelisting in Java 7 update 40. It was called Deployment Rule Set. In Java update 51, it introduced a new feature, that was close...
Florence Broderick Winners of the Latch Plugins Contest As you know, last 16th of October 2014, as part of our annual “Security Innovation Day” event, we announced the launch of the “Latch Plugins Contest“, the first Latch...
Florence Broderick Detected some "clickers" in Google Play simulating apps and games During the last days, some apps have appeared in Google Play that work like “clickers”, between them an app simulating Talking Tom (that was online for just a few...
Florence Broderick News: ownCloud Latch plugin We have uploaded to GitHub our latest plugin for ownCloud. It makes it easier to use Latch technology with this free software similar to widely used Dropbox. You can...
Florence Broderick 5.500 apps potentially vulnerable to Man in the Middle attacks in Google Play It has been discovered than AppsGeyser, an app creator “with just a few clicks”, deactivates the SSL certificate validation in its apps. An attacker on the same network as...
Florence Broderick Latch USB Monitor: New tool to monitor PNP devices with Latch Latch USB Monitor is a tool that monitors Plug ‘n Play device (PNP) changes in Windows and gives the user the possibility of tracking incoming devices, and react accordingly...
Florence Broderick PhpMyAdmin fixes a XSS detected by ElevenPaths (CVE-2014-9219) On November 28th, while our Faast team was developing an intrusion module for PhpMyAdmin MySQL manager, we detected a new cross site scripting vulnerability not known so far in this...
Florence Broderick Shuabang botnet: BlackHat App Store Optimization (BlackASO) in Google Play ElevenPaths has detected malicious apps in Google Play (already removed by Google), aimed at performing Shuabang techniques, or BlackASO (Black Hat App Store Optimization). These malicious apps link fake...
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 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 Android malware not only posing as Word documents… but Excel as well China is a paradise for “SMS stealing malware” for Android. These programs steal your SMS inbox, notebook… The only “problem” for malware creators is to induce users to...
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...
