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 December 5-11 Microsoft Security Newsletter On December 8, Microsoft published its monthly security update newsletter, which this time includes patches for 58 vulnerabilities and an advisory for various Microsoft products. Nine of...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing November 14-20 Malware distribution campaign supplants the identity of Spanish ministries ESET researchers warn of a malware distribution campaign that is impersonating Spanish ministries to distribute a malicious Android application through links...
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 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,...
ElevenPaths Dumpster diving in Bin Laden’s computers: malware, passwords, warez and metadata (II) What would you expect from a computer network that belongs to a terrorists group? Super-encrypted material? Special passwords? The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on 1 November 2017 released additional...
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...
ElevenPaths Security Innovation Days 2020: The New Era Cyber Security in the Digital Transformation Era There is no doubt about it, we are living times of constant changes at all possible levels. There are so many that we are talking about a change of...
Telefónica Tech Top 3 most read cybersecurity posts this year In our weekly summer compilation with the most relevant and most read contents of the Telefónica Tech blog since the beginning of this year, this time we bring you...
Estevenson Solano Metaverse (II): the challenge of building a virtual space that is secure, inclusive and beneficial to everyone As we learned in the previous article of this series, impact of the metaverse on disinformation, child security, its evolution and its potential to spread discrimination and inequalities will...
Aarón Jornet Evolution of Spear-Phishing Techniques of Notorious Threat Groups and malware used In recent years, different campaigns and threats have been metabolised and their entry vector has been the same, the e-mail. This initial access always seems to be the most...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 8 – 14 April Apple fixes two new actively exploited 0-day vulnerabilities Apple has released new security advisories about two new actively exploited 0-day vulnerabilities affecting iPhones, Macs and iPads. First, there is the...
Estevenson Solano Metaverse (I): threats in an immersive, multi-sensory environment While the discussion and excitement around the metaverse is growing, there are also feelings of doubt, fear, concern and uncertainty about the potential risks in an environment where the...
María Riesgo Technology and the young: how to turn dangers into opportunities The technology world is moving extremely fast. If we look back, we would have never imagined the possibility of connecting to a computer without interrupting the landline phone at...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 25 – 31 March GitHub exposes its RSA SSH host key by mistake GitHub announced last Friday that they had replaced their RSA SSH host key used to protect Git operations. According to the...
Roberto García Esteban Cloud terms you can’t miss It was George Favaloro and Sean O’Sullivan, managers of Compaq Computer, who first used the expression “Cloud Computing” in 1996, and since then, the term has become so popular...
Nacho Palou Cybercrime, a constant threat to all types of companies Cyber threats have existed since technology began to be used in companies and organizations. But the evolution of the technology world in the 21st century has changed the landscape:...
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...
Nacho Palou 5G connectivity: Four real and practical use cases According to data from GSMA, collected by the publication Redes & Telecom, by the end of 2022, over one billion 5G connections had been surpassed worldwide; this figure will...
ElevenPaths Squeezing the numbers and facts of Google’s annual Android security report Last month Google published its third annual security report on Android’s security protections, aiming to send a clear message to the world about mobile malware (or Potentially Harmful Applications...
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 Evil FOCA is now Open Source We are really happy to announce that Evil FOCA is now Open Source. We have received lots of comments and feedback about how you are using Evil FOCA, or how...
Florence Broderick How to bypass antiXSS filter in Chrome and Safari (discovered by ElevenPaths) Modern browsers usually have an antiXSS filter, that protects users from some of the consequences of this kind of attacks. Normally, they block cross site scripting execution, so the...
Florence Broderick FOCA Final Version, the ultimate FOCA You all know FOCA. Over the years, it had a great acceptation and became quite popular. Eleven Path has killed the FOCA to turn it into a professional service,...