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,...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Nobody on The Internet Knows You Are A Dog, Even If You Use TLS Certificates You may have noticed that most websites have a little padlock on them. If you click on it, a window will pop up stating that “the connection is secure”....
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 tool: PySCTChecker This is a “Quick and dirty” Python script for checking if a domain properly implements Certificate Transparency. If so, it is possible to observe how Certificate Transparency is implemented...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 29 April – 5 May Critical vulnerability in Zyxel firewalls Network equipment manufacturer Zyxel has released security patches for a critical vulnerability affecting its firewalls. The vulnerability, which was discovered and reported by the TRAPA...
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...
Christian F. Espinosa Velarde FaceApp and Personal Data, Hadn´t We Talked About This Already? Hadn’t we already talked about this? The comeback of applications like FaceApp and the fuss caused by the photos generated, in which their users can appear as women being...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing May 8-14 Ransomware attack on a main US oil pipeline US energy company Colonial Pipeline was hit by a ransomware attack on Friday, causing the shutdown of around 8800km of pipelines supplying...
ElevenPaths WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal, Which One? In the world of smartphones, 2021 began with a piece of news that has left no one indifferent: the update of WhatsApp’s terms and conditions of use. This measure,...
Sergio de los Santos 26 Reasons Why Chrome Does Not Trust the Spanish CA Camerfirma From the imminent version 90, Chrome will show a certificate error when a user tries to access any website with a certificate signed by Camerfirma. Perhaps it is not...
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...
Juan Elosua Tomé Triki: Cookie Collection and Analysis Tool In July 2020, the Spanish Data Protection Agency, following the entry into force of the European General Data Protection Regulation and several consultations with the European Data Protection Committee...
Javier Provecho CNCF’s Harbor (cloud native registry) fixes an information disclosure bug discovered by ElevenPaths (CVE-2020-29662) On December 2nd, ElevenPaths’ CTO SRE team discovered an unauthenticated API within Harbor, a cloud native registry part of the CNCF. It is commonly used as an agnostic Docker...
Gabriel Bergel Digital Zombies and Social Engineering This post is about zombies and social engineering, the image in figure 1 is free and royalty free as long as you credit it, and I loved it. We...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 30 January – 5 February Chrome will reject Camerfirma’s certificates Google plans to ban and remove Chrome’s support for digital certificates issued by the certification authority (CA) Camerfirma, a Spanish company that is widely deployed...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Snitch Cryptography: How to Crack Tamper-Proof Devices Google’s Titan Security Key or YubiKey from Yubico are the ultimate trend in multi-factor authentication security. According to Google’s own website: «The keys have a hardware chip with firmware designed...
Amador Aparicio CVE 2020-35710 or How Your RAS Gateway Secure Reveals Your Organisation’s Intranet Parallels RAS (Remote Application Server) is a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and application delivery solution that enables an organisation’s employees and clients to access and use applications, desktops and...
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...
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...
