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 Unravelling the Quantum Tangle of Cybersecurity: Quantum Computers, Quantum and Post-Quantum Cryptography Do you know what’ s the difference between quantum computing, quantum cryptography and post-quantum cryptography? Because to be honest, they have (almost) nothing to do with each other. They...
Nikolaos Tsouroulas Looking for a MDR partner? Beware, not all MDRs are the same Are you throwing more money than you can afford into your SOC but still failing to detect and respond quickly enough to incidents? Have you suffered the impact of...
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....
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Nonces, Salts, Paddings and Other Random Herbs for Cryptographic Salad Dressing The chronicles of the kings of Norway has it that King Olaf Haraldsson the Saint disputed the possession of the Hísing island with his neighbour the King of Sweden....
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 10 – 16 December Microsoft fixes in its December Patch Tuesday two 0-day vulnerabilities and 49 other bugs Among the fixed vulnerabilities, two of them are 0-day, one of them actively exploited and identified...
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...
Marta Mª Padilla Foubelo Dark Markets in the internet age What are Dark Markets or Black Markets? This concept has been in the news for a long time as a consequence of clandestine sales. The markets for drugs and...
ElevenPaths Do I Really Need an Antivirus? How can standard users protect themselves? In this article we explain what an antivirus is for and how you can be (more) protected.
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...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing July 18-24 New Emotet Campaign after 5 Months of Inactivity After several months of inactivity, Emotet is back with a massive sending of reply-chain and payment emails, among others, that include malicious...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths announces that its security platform complies with the new european data protection regulation one year earlier than required The European regulations will enter into force in May 2018, when entities that do not comply can be penalized with fines of up to 4% of their annual turnover. ElevenPaths...
Florence Broderick ElevenPaths acquires Gesconsultor (Gesdatos), the leading Governance, Risk & Compliance platform Spain GesConsultor will be offered internationally as part of Telefónica’s security services portfolio. The platform enables organisations to support business strategy, improve operating performance, mitigate operational risks and ensure regulatory compliance. GOVERTIS...
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...
