Emilio Moreno Life at the border Today’s article is not going to be about cowboy movies, nor about the Limes of the Roman Empire, nor about Radio Futura’s song even though it may seem like...
Paloma, Recuero de los Santos Green data centers: fighting climate pollution from Internet use Do you have any idea how the Internet affects the environment? According to World Bank data, 48.5% of the world’s population was already connected to the Internet in 2017...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 12-18 February Researchers develop exploit for critical vulnerability in Magento Positive Technologies’ offensive security team has developed a Proof of Concept (PoC) for the CVE-2022-24086 CVSSv3 9.8 vulnerability, claiming that it would allow control...
Diego Samuel Espitia A practical approach to integrating MITRE’s ATT&CK and D3FEND Businesses have become aware of the need to have mechanisms in place to ensure the protection of their information and how important it is to understand their weaknesses in...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 5 – 11 February Microsoft disables macros and MSIX to prevent malware distribution Microsoft has been actively mobilising against multiple malware attacks that use some of its technologies as an entry vector. The products...
Alexandre Maravilla Digital Identity Wallets against identity theft fraud Identity theft or impersonation is a type of fraud in which criminals manage to supplant the identity of the person being deceived, based on the theft of their personal...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 29 January – 4 February Exploits that allow privilege elevation in Windows published Security researchers have made public several exploits that leverage a known elevation of privilege vulnerability that affects all versions of Windows 10. The exploits...
Paloma Recuero de los Santos Artificial Intelligence or Cognitive Intelligence? The buzz words of business (Original post in Spanish: ¿Inteligencia artificial o cognitiva?) Artificial Intelligence in the last 5 years has become the biggest buzz word with various spin offs including “Cognitive Intelligence”, “Smart Technologies”...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 22-28 January New vulnerabilities in Linux Two new vulnerabilities of risk have recently been disclosed and are reportedly affecting Linux systems. If exploited, they could allow privilege escalation on the vulnerable system. CVE-2021-4034...
Martiniano Mallavibarrena Are we really shopping ” securely ” on the Internet? Once Black Friday, Singles’ Day (if you have Chinese roots or any kind of relationship to it) and Christmas are over, I’m sure the vast majority of us have...
Innovation Marketing Team Partnerships that escalate entrepreneurship and innovate the corporation: Ten Wayra startups that do business with Vivo With 10 years of operations, Wayra has transformed the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Brazil and worldwide. Since its launch in 2011, when it was created to support entrepreneurship, Wayra has...
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 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 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 Showing certificate chain without validating with Windows "certificate store" (C#) Java has its own independent certificate store. If you wish to view natively in Windows a certificate extracted from an APK or JAR file Windows may not find the...
