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...
Nacho Palou A concept popularized by a former Google CEO is more relevant today than ever A few years ago, Google’s then CEO Eric Schmidt popularised the concept of “augmented humanity”. This term refers to the ability of technology to “enhance human capabilities” to make...
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...
Nacho Palou How to start programming in Artificial Intelligence: languages, tools and recommendations There is a very close relationship between Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI): Big Data is about capturing, processing and analysing large amounts of data. When this data is...
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...
Alberto García García-Castro Incentives in business blockchain networks: a new approach It has always been a fundamental part of the technology to use incentives that reward collaboration and good practices among participants in a blockchain network. So much so that...
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....
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 HookMe, a tool for intercepting communications with API hooking HookMe is a tool for Windows that allows to intercept system processes when calling APIs needed for network connections. The tool, still in beta, was developed by Manuel Fernández (now...
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...
Florence Broderick Quick and dirty shellcode to binary python script https://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/loader/run_prettify.js If you work with exploits and shellcode, you already know what shellcode is and how to deal with it. Sometimes it comes with exploits in C, Perl, Python…...
