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 Cyber Security Weekly Briefing February 6-12 Attempted contamination of drinking water through a cyber-attack An unidentified threat actor reportedly accessed computer systems at the City of Oldsmar’s water treatment plant in Florida, US, and altered the...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing January 23-29 Attack against SonicWall by exploiting a possible 0-day in its VPN appliances Firewall manufacturer SonicWall has issued a security alert warning that it has detected a sophisticated attack against...
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....
Diego Samuel Espitia Detecting the Indicators of An Attack We always choose to implement prevention and deterrence rather than containment mechanisms in security. However, the implementation of these mechanisms is not always effective or simple to set up...
ElevenPaths Monero says goodbye to the ASIC miners (at least for now) Last Friday, 6th April marked an important date for the community of Monero users and developers, as one of the cryptocurrencies led the defense of anonymity for its users. As already commented...
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, 4 – 10 February Critical vulnerability in Atlassian Jira Atlassian has issued a security advisory in which it releases fixes to resolve a critical vulnerability in Jira Service Management Server and Data Center. According to...
Sergio de los Santos Four cyber security milestones that shaped the future of malware A journey through the 15 years Microsoft has spent consolidating a strategy that has impacted cybersecurity globally
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Cyber Security State: Top Threats, Risks and Vulnerabilities There are many reports on security trends and summaries, but at Telefónica Tech we want to make a difference. The Innovation and Lab team has just launched our own...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 11 – 17 February Apple fixes actively exploited 0-day Apple has issued several security advisories to fix an actively exploited 0-day vulnerability. The security flaw, listed as CVE-2023-23529, is a type confusion in the browser’s...
Marta Mallavibarrena Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and Cyber Security Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a frequent topic on this blog. Almost all predictions of technological trends for the coming years include it as one of the key advances. In...
Nacho Palou We are now live! Discover the new Telefónica Tech website We have redesigned the Telefónica Tech website to represent who we are as a digital solutions integrator. We also want to share what we do, who is behind it...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 4 – 10 February Critical vulnerability in Atlassian Jira Atlassian has issued a security advisory in which it releases fixes to resolve a critical vulnerability in Jira Service Management Server and Data Center. According to...
Telefónica Tech How I won a Capture the Flag competition by solving challenges using my mobile phone David Soto, winner of the challenge, collecting the prize together with Humbert Ruiz, from 42 Barcelona, Fundación Telefónica’s programming campus. We organised activities aimed at the technical audience in the...
Roberto García Esteban Metacloud: a cloud of clouds The digitalisation of society is rapidly advancing, mainly driven by the development of the internet and Cloud technology. Companies are rushing to adopt these new technologies in pursuit of...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 21 January – 3 February LockBit Green: new LockBit variant Researchers at vx-underground have recently detected that a new ransomware variant, called LockBit Green, is being used by the LockBit ransomware handlers. This new variant...
Martiniano Mallavibarrena Cybersecurity in films: myth vs. reality with 10 examples The multiple aspects of cybersecurity (attacks, investigations, defence, disloyal employees, negligence, etc.) have been part of the plot of countless movies and TV series for years. In today’s society,...
Daniel Pous Montardit Resilience, key to Cloud-Native systems In the first post of the Cloud-Native series, What is a Cloud-Native Application?, or what it means that my software is Cloud Native, we presented resilience as one of...
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...
