Sergio de los Santos Four cyber security milestones that shaped the future of malware A journey through the 15 years Microsoft has spent consolidating a strategy that has impacted cybersecurity globally
Sergio de los Santos Pay When You Get Infected by Ransomware? Many Shades of Grey The Internet is full of articles explaining why ransomware should not be paid. And they are probably right, but if you don’t make a difference between the type of ransomware and...
Sergio de los Santos Hypocrisy doublespeak in ransomware gangs The hypocrisy, doublespeak and even, we assume, sarcasm that ransomware gangs display on their websites has no limits. As an anecdote, we are going to show some of the...
Sergio de los Santos 0days in numbers: Chrome, Windows, Exchange… What are attackers and manufacturers looking for? Very interesting data from Google’s Project Zero, which tries to catalogue, find and disseminate 0days. They do not discover them directly, but “detect” them in any manufacturer when they...
Sergio de los Santos Google takes a step forward to improve Certificate Transparency’s ecosystem: No dependence on Google Google will change certificate transparency requirements to make it more independent of itself
Sergio de los Santos Chronicle Of the Attack on A Youtuber Who Knew About Cyber Security The news recently broke: youtubers with the largest number of followers are being targeted for extortion. The attacks are on the rise and the techniques are not new, but...
Sergio de los Santos Frequently Asked Questions About Printnightmare (CVE-2021-34527) We are going to try to clarify some common doubts about this vulnerability, since it has turned up with some confusing data about whether it was patched or not,...
Sergio de los Santos What On Earth Is Going on With Ransomware And Why We Won’t Stop It Any Time Soon In the last few months, it is not rare that every now and then we read about a large company that has fallen victim to ransomware, either brought to...
Sergio de los Santos And the President Said, “Enough Is Enough”. The New Cyber Security Proposals from The White House Joe Biden has signed an Executive Order to improve national cyber security and protect federal government networks more efficiently. The attack on oil pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline, a story...
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...
Olivia Brookhouse Can Artificial Intelligence understand emotions? When John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded Artificial Intelligence in 1956, they were amazed how a machine could perform incredibly difficult puzzles quicker than humans. However, it turns out...
Miryam Artigas Using Midjourney to create social media content Any sentence containing the word ‘dinosaur’ is worthy of attention. Admit it, it happens to you too. And if not, I’ll tell you why we’re talking about dinosaurs in a...
New Markets Team Human Factors in Cybersecurity: Protect Yourself Download the last report from Telefónica Tech Cyber & Cloud New Markets Team aimed at fighting disinformation and raising awareness about Cybersecurity
Javier Coronado Blazquez Endless worlds, realistic worlds: procedural generation and artificial intelligence in video games The video game No Man's Sky creates entirely visitable and different galaxies and planets at full-scale using a simple algorithm. How does it do it?
AI of Things Coca-Cola’s use of AI to stay at the top of the drinks market Coca-Cola is the largest beverage company in the world serving over 1.9 billion drinks daily across its 500 brands. Being such a large conglomerate active in so many countries...
