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...
David García Will Rust save the world? (I) How Rust, the security-focused open source programming language, improves the outlook for memory error-based vulnerabilities
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...
Jorge Rubio Artificial Intelligence applied to industrial Cyber Security (OT) Cyber Security in industrial or OT (Operational Technology) environments is crucial to protect critical infrastructures such as energy, transport and communication and has become an increasing concern as they...
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...
Estevenson Solano Metaverse (II): the challenge of building a virtual space that is secure, inclusive and beneficial to everyone As we learned in the previous article of this series, impact of the metaverse on disinformation, child security, its evolution and its potential to spread discrimination and inequalities will...
Aarón Jornet Evolution of Spear-Phishing Techniques of Notorious Threat Groups and malware used In recent years, different campaigns and threats have been metabolised and their entry vector has been the same, the e-mail. This initial access always seems to be the most...
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...
Estevenson Solano Metaverse (I): threats in an immersive, multi-sensory environment While the discussion and excitement around the metaverse is growing, there are also feelings of doubt, fear, concern and uncertainty about the potential risks in an environment where the...
María Riesgo Technology and the young: how to turn dangers into opportunities The technology world is moving extremely fast. If we look back, we would have never imagined the possibility of connecting to a computer without interrupting the landline phone at...
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…...
