Martiniano Mallavibarrena Cybersecurity in films: myth vs. reality with 10 examples The multiple aspects of cybersecurity (attacks, investigations, defence, disloyal employees, negligence, etc.) have been part of the plot of countless movies and TV series for years. In today’s society,...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 21 – 27 January Killnet targeting victims in Spain This week, the hacktivist group Killnet announced a campaign of attacks against Germany, leading to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that rendered the websites...
Marta Nieto Gómez-Elegido «We are moving towards genderless professions», María Martínez It’s a cold morning in Madrid and María Martínez Martín, Head of the Threats Intelligence Operations team at Telefónica Tech, welcomes us at the Telefónica building. Wearing a blue blazer...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 14 – 20 January Critical vulnerabilities in Netcomm and TP-Link routers Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Netcomm and TP-Link routers. On the one hand, the flaws, identified asCVE-2022-4873 and CVE-2022-4874, are a case of buffer...
Jorge Rubio Consequences of a cyber-attack in industrial environments Industrial environments can be found in any type of sector we can imagine, whether in water treatment, transport, pharmaceutical, machinery manufacturing, electrical, food or automotive companies, among others. The differences...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 7 – 13 January Microsoft fixes 98 vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday Microsoft has published its security bulletin for the month of January, in which it fixes a total of 98 vulnerabilities. Among these, an...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 31 December – 6 January PyTorch’s dependency chain is breached PyTorch, a popular open-source machine learning framework, has warned users who installed PyTorch-nightly between 25 and 30 December 2022 to uninstall the framework and the...
Martiniano Mallavibarrena Understanding The Dynamics of Ransomware Security Incidents The ransomware phenomenon If there is one term that has earned its way to the top of the headlines in the media over the last two years, ransomware is undoubtedly...
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...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 24 – 30 December LastPass confirms theft of customer passwords LastPass has announced that its cloud storage system was breached using stolen passwords in an incident last August. The attackers gained access to the...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths creates an addon to make Firefox compatible with Certificate Transparency Certificate Transparency will be mandatory in Chrome for new certificates in late 2017. This means that the webpages will show an alert if protected by certificates not present in...
Florence Broderick Now you can use Latch with Dropbox, Facebook and others digital services Many of you have asked us which services you can use Latch with, regretting that so far it could not be used in the more common services, such as...
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 Quick and dirty script in Powershell to check certificate fingerprints Malware is using signed binaries to attack Windows systems. Malware needs it to get into the roots of the operative system. So attackers steal or create their own certificates....
Florence Broderick Heartbleed plugin for FOCA By now, everyone knows about Heartbleed. Just like we did for FaasT, we have created a plugin for FOCA (final version) one of our most downloaded tools. This plugin...
