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...
Mark Skelton 3 Key Cyber Security Considerations To tackle cyber security effectively, we need to find new ways to meet the cyber challenges facing all of us. As CTO for Telefónica Tech UK&I, I regularly speak...
Sandra Tello Towards a green digital transformation COVID-19 has created challenges that were previously unimaginable, but it has also given us an incredible opportunity to reinvent and rebuild ourselves. In my last blog post we saw...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 12-18 March Vishing by impersonating Microsoft The Office of Internet Security (OSI) has issued a security advisory to report an increase, in recent weeks, of fraudulent calls in which a supposed Microsoft...
Telefónica Tech's Innovation and Laboratory Area #CyberSecurityReport2021H2: Log4Shell, the vulnerability that has exposed the software’s reliance on altruistically maintained libraries and their enormous security impact. There are many reports on security trends and security summaries, but Telefónica Tech wants to make a difference. The Innovation and Lab team has just launched our own report...
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...
Alexandre Maravilla Are SMS for sending verification codes secure? I recently forgot the password to access the personal area of my current bank’s online banking app. I show you the process of resetting the password, carried out from...
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,...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 19-25 February New privilege escalation flaw in Linux Security researchers at Qualys have discovered seven flaws in Canonical’s Snap software packaging and deployment system used in operating systems that use the Linux...
Marta Mª Padilla Foubelo Dark Markets in the internet age What are Dark Markets or Black Markets? This concept has been in the news for a long time as a consequence of clandestine sales. The markets for drugs and...
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...
Alexandre Maravilla Web3 and the evolution of Internet Identity The recent rise of Web3; the new evolution of the Internet to make it decentralised through Blockchain, is also bringing a lot of talk about decentralised identity schemes and...
AI of Things 5 AI uses in Photography On our blog, we enjoy sharing the applications of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in sectors that may surprise you. Previously, in “Dining with Data” we saw how customers...
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...
