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...
Gabriel Álvarez Corrada Approaching Cybersecurity in Industry 4.0: The Age of Connected Machines Don’t run away yet! This era is not about machines enslaving humanity (at least, not yet…) but about the introduction of elements (IOT devices, cloud environments, IA, Big Data, SIEM,...
Carlos Ávila Your MacOS System Is Also A Target for Cybercrime – Protect It! According to statcounter, Apple’s operating system, macOS (formerly OSX) in particular, has a market share of around 17%, making it the second most widely used desktop operating system. This...
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....
Rafael Ortiz How to Make API REST Requests to Tor Hidden Services in an Android APK If you are a developer and want to test your Android app with a Tor hidden service, here's how.
Carlos Ávila WhatsApp Terms and Conditions Update: A Cheeky Move? Surely by now many have already accepted the new terms and privacy policies without really knowing what they were about or their impact on the privacy of their data,...
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, 21-28 October Campaigns spreading ERMAC malware A team of Cyble researchers recently discovered a mass phishing campaign aimed at spreading the ERMAC banking trojan. The infection method is based on downloading fake...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 22 – 28 April SolarWinds fixes high severity vulnerabilities In its latest security update, SolarWinds has fixed a total of 2 high-severity vulnerabilities, which could lead to command execution and privilege escalation. The more...
ElevenPaths Your feelings influence your perception of risk and benefit more than you might think Security is both a feeling and a reality —Bruce Schneier Daniel Gardner starts his book The Science of Fear with the shocking history of US September 11 attacks: And so in...
ElevenPaths Why you are late delivering all your projects and what you can do to address it Anyone who causes harm by forecasting should be treated as either a fool or a liar. Some forecasters cause more damage to society than criminals. —Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan, 2007 In 1957,...
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...
ElevenPaths How to forecast the future and reduce uncertainty thanks to Bayesian inference (II) In the first part of this article we explained how Bayesian inference works. According to Norman Fenton, author of Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks: Bayes’ theorem is...
ElevenPaths New research: Docless Vietnam APT. A very interesting malware against Vietnam Government We have detected a malware sent to some email accounts belonging to a Vietnam government domain. This email is written in Vietnamese and is dated March 13th, 2019. It seems to...
ElevenPaths How to forecast the future and reduce uncertainty thanks to Bayesian inference (I) Imagine that you come back home from San Francisco, just arrived from the RSA Conference. You are unpacking your suitcase, open the drawer where you store your underwear and…...
ElevenPaths New research: we discover how to avoid SmartScreen via COM Hijacking and with no privileges COM Hijacking technique has a simple theoretical basis, similar to the DLL Hijacking one: What does it happen when an application searches for a non-existent COM object on the...
ElevenPaths The base rate fallacy or why antiviruses, antispam filters and detection probes work worse than what is actually promised Before starting your workday, while your savoring your morning coffee, you open your favorite cybersecurity newsletter and an advertisement on a new Intrusion Detection System catches your attention: THIS IDS...
ElevenPaths If you want to change your employees’ security habits, don’t call their will, modify their environment instead You’re in a coffee bar and you need to connect your smartphone to a Wi-Fi, so you check your screen and see the following options. Imagine that you know...
ElevenPaths Don’t confuse the frequency of an incident with the ease you remember it Imagine that there have been a few robberies in two parks of your town that have got all the attention for days. This afternoon you would like to go...
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 New tool: PinPatrol for Chrome. Something more than a plugin, a forensics tool Back in July, we created a new tool for improving the experience using HSTS and HPKP in Firefox. Now it’s time for Chrome. It shows this information in a...
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...
