Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 16–22 April Fodcha: new DDoS botnet 360netlab and CNCERT researchers have discovered a new botnet focused on conducting denial-of-service attacks, and which is rapidly spreading on the Internet. This new botnet has been...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 1–8 April Critical vulnerability in GitLab allows access to user accounts GitLab has released a security update that fixes a total of 17 vulnerabilities, including a critical vulnerability affecting both GitLab Community...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 26 March- 1 April Spring4Shell vulnerability Spring has released security updates for the 0-day remote code execution (RCE) flaw known as Spring4Shell. Since the appearance of the vulnerability, unconfirmed information has been released from different...
Telefónica Tech Affordable fleet management for Spanish SMEs We live in a fast-changing environment. Spanish SMEs have sharpened their wits to stay in the business after the pandemic. Most of them have begun a process of digitalisation...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 19-25 March Privilege escalation vulnerability in Western Digital Independent security researcher Xavier Danest has reported a privilege escalation vulnerability in EdgeRover. It should be mentioned that EdgeRover is a software developed by storage products...
Telefónica Tech Telefónica Tech at Mobile Word Congress 2022 MWC 2022 was undoubtedly one of the busiest in recent years. With the post-pandemic halt and the rescheduling of MWC 2021, even though it was only 6 months since...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 5-11 March Mozilla patches two 0-day vulnerabilities Mozilla has issued a security advisory patching two 0-day vulnerabilities that are reportedly being actively exploited and affect Firefox, Focus and Thunderbird. Both vulnerabilities were...
Telefónica Tech 42 Madrid students solve Telefónica Tech’s challenges In recent years, cybersecurity has become a major cornerstone for businesses. Data is today’s gold and protecting it is an essential part of a project. In 2021, there were...
Telefónica Tech Telefónica Tech AI of Things made real In a previous post of our blog, we already told you how the combination of technologies based on Artificial Intelligence, Iot and Big Data, the “Artificial Intelligence of Things”,...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 28 February – 4 March Daxin: highly sophisticated backdoor Researchers at Symantec have published a paper reporting a new backdoor they have called Daxin, which they attribute to actors linked to China. According to Symantec,...
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…...
