Telefónica Tech Most read content in 2021 The end of the year is approaching and from the Telefónica Tech blog we wanted to make a compilation of the contents that have most engaged our audience, technology...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 18 – 24 December Log4Shell Vulnerability (update) Through the week new details and comments around the vulnerability known as Log4Shell have continued to appear. First, a new denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Log4j2 on versions from 2.0-alpha1...
Jorge González How can we make water consumption more efficient? Thanks to new technologies that help connect objects or machines, such as NB-IoT or LTE-M, we can provide answers to how to optimise and make water consumption more efficient. Water...
Santiago Morante Cendrero Artificial Intelligence in fiction: Eva, by Kike Maíllo Are you afraid your food processor will rebel and poison your lentils? Do you think your Roomba is watching you? Do you wear a hat when you see a...
Emilio Moreno 2021: the year Edge Computing came into our lives As we come to the end of the year, it is a good time to look back and see how the Edge has come into our lives. In my...
Alexandre Maravilla Onboarding and biometric authentication to fight online fraud Online fraud has experienced a significant growth since the early 2020s pandemic accelerated the digital transformation of businesses and citizens. This is evidenced by the latest report from the...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 11 – 17 December New campaign distributing the Anubis banking trojan Researchers at Lookout have reported a malicious campaign distributing a new version of the Anubis banking trojan obfuscated in an Android mobile app...
Sandra Tello The COVID crisis and diversity in the technology field The pandemic has highlighted the need for STEM profiles The coronavirus pandemic is estimated to have accelerated digitalisation by 5 to 10 years. This means that the technology sector will...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 4 – 10 December Catalan government suffers DDoS attack According to the statement issued by the Catalan government, the Centre de Telecomunicacions i Tecnologies de la Informació (CTTI) detected last Friday a cyber-attack that compromised more...
Roberto García Esteban Cloud services enabling remote working There is no doubt that the hybrid model in which face-to-face and remote work is shared is here to stay in companies all over the world, including SMEs. To...
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…...
