Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 6 – 12 May Security updates vulnerabilities in Fortinet products Fortinet has announced a set of security updates that fix up to a total of 9 vulnerabilities, 2 of which are considered high severity...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 29 April – 5 May Critical vulnerability in Zyxel firewalls Network equipment manufacturer Zyxel has released security patches for a critical vulnerability affecting its firewalls. The vulnerability, which was discovered and reported by the TRAPA...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 22 – 28 April SolarWinds fixes high severity vulnerabilities In its latest security update, SolarWinds has fixed a total of 2 high-severity vulnerabilities, which could lead to command execution and privilege escalation. The more...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 15 – 21 April Google fixes two new actively exploited 0-day vulnerabilities Google has issued new security advisories on the identification of 0-day vulnerabilities affecting the Chrome browser that are being actively exploited. The...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 8 – 14 April Apple fixes two new actively exploited 0-day vulnerabilities Apple has released new security advisories about two new actively exploited 0-day vulnerabilities affecting iPhones, Macs and iPads. First, there is the...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 25 – 31 March GitHub exposes its RSA SSH host key by mistake GitHub announced last Friday that they had replaced their RSA SSH host key used to protect Git operations. According to the...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 18 – 24 March HinataBot: new botnet dedicated to DDoS attacks Researchers at Akamai have published a report stating that they have identified a new botnet called HinataBot that has the capability to perform...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 11 – 17 March A new version of the Xenomorph banking trojan ThreatFabric researchers have detected a new variant of the Android banking trojan Xenomorph. This malware family was first detected in February 2022...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 4 – 10 March FBI and ICSA Launch Advisory to Combat Royal Ransomware The FBI and ICSA launched the #StopRansomware: Royal Ransomware Cyber Security Advisory on 2 March to help combat this type of...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 25 February – 3 March Vulnerabilities in WordPress Houzez A security researcher from Patchstack has recently discovered two critical vulnerabilities in Houzez, a WordPress theme and plugin that allows easy and seamless list management for...
ElevenPaths Mum, I want to be a hacker The hacker concept is most often associated with male ‘techies’ and ‘geeks’. But why is it so difficult to find female role models in the world of technology? We...
Florence Broderick New tool: PinPatrol for Chrome. Something more than a plugin, a forensics tool Back in July, we created a new tool for improving the experience using HSTS and HPKP in Firefox. Now it’s time for Chrome. It shows this information in a...
Florence Broderick Mobile Connect winner of the 'Connected Life Awards' Mobile Connect is a multi-operator solution driven by GSMA for universal secure access. The user only needs to link their information to their mobile device solution to have quick...
Florence Broderick Introducing Mobile Connect – the new standard in digital authentication The Mobile Operators hold the future of digital authentication in our hands, and so do our customers. The consumers will no longer need to create and manage multiple user...
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...
