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 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 Securing a Cloud Environment With a Telco Cloud Provider Nowadays, nobody can deny the remarkable benefits of cloud computing, both infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). Cloud computing drives cost savings, agility to...
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 Evrial, malware that steals Bitcoins using the clipboard… and the scammed scammers Evrial is the latest cryptocoin malware stealer, and uses the power to control the clipboard as its strongest bet to get “easy money”. Elevenpaths has took a deep technical...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: Monero and EternalRomance, the perfect formula Last year’s release by ShadowBrokers about tools belonging to the National Security Agency continues to be a talking point. A new malware which utilizes the EternalRomance tool has appeared...
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...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón How to Track COVID-19 Infections, Discover Contacts On WhatsApp or Share Your Genes While Keeping Your Privacy When you sign up for a new social network, such as WhatsApp, you are often asked if you want to find out who among your contacts is already part...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 9-15 October Microsoft Security Bulletin Microsoft has published its security bulletin for the month of October in which it has fixed a total of 81 bugs in its software, including 4 0-day...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 21 – 27 January Killnet targeting victims in Spain This week, the hacktivist group Killnet announced a campaign of attacks against Germany, leading to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that rendered the websites...
Marta Nieto Gómez-Elegido «We are moving towards genderless professions», María Martínez It’s a cold morning in Madrid and María Martínez Martín, Head of the Threats Intelligence Operations team at Telefónica Tech, welcomes us at the Telefónica building. Wearing a blue blazer...
Gonzalo Fernández Rodríguez What is a Cloud-Native Application? The term Cloud Native is something that goes beyond moving applications on-premises, i.e. hosted directly in a data centre to an infrastructure from a Cloud provider, whether public or...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 14 – 20 January Critical vulnerabilities in Netcomm and TP-Link routers Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Netcomm and TP-Link routers. On the one hand, the flaws, identified asCVE-2022-4873 and CVE-2022-4874, are a case of buffer...
Jorge Rubio Consequences of a cyber-attack in industrial environments Industrial environments can be found in any type of sector we can imagine, whether in water treatment, transport, pharmaceutical, machinery manufacturing, electrical, food or automotive companies, among others. The differences...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 7 – 13 January Microsoft fixes 98 vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday Microsoft has published its security bulletin for the month of January, in which it fixes a total of 98 vulnerabilities. Among these, an...
Daniel Pous Montardit Observability: what it is and what it offers What is observability? The term “observability” comes from Rudolf Kalman’s control theory and refers to the ability to infer the internal state of a system based on its external outputs....
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 31 December – 6 January PyTorch’s dependency chain is breached PyTorch, a popular open-source machine learning framework, has warned users who installed PyTorch-nightly between 25 and 30 December 2022 to uninstall the framework and the...
Martiniano Mallavibarrena Understanding The Dynamics of Ransomware Security Incidents The ransomware phenomenon If there is one term that has earned its way to the top of the headlines in the media over the last two years, ransomware is undoubtedly...
Alexandre Maravilla Web3 and the evolution of Internet Identity The recent rise of Web3; the new evolution of the Internet to make it decentralised through Blockchain, is also bringing a lot of talk about decentralised identity schemes and...
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 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 Introducing Mobile Connect – the new standard in digital authentication The Mobile Operators hold the future of digital authentication in our hands, and so do our customers. The consumers will no longer need to create and manage multiple user...