Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 13-19 November Emotet returns Security researchers from Cryptolaemus have identifed what seems to be the reappearence of the popular Emotet malware, whose infrastructure had remained inactive since January after a joint intervenion by security...
José Luis Núñez Díaz Growing impact and future potential of blockchain for telcos: A Game Changer? Could blockchain really impact on the business of communications providers? As an industry, have telcos already embraced this technology? Do they see any opportunity behind blockchain? Do blockchain and decentralized technologies...
Susana Alwasity The risks of not having controlled exposure to information (II) As promised last week in the first post of this series, this time we will talk about how to minimise the risks of our digital footprint. ¿ How to minimise...
María Teresa Nieto Galán What is happening with the public Ethereum network and will it ever be scalable? From the beginning, one of the main limitations that we have found in Blockchain technology when developing solutions is scalability. This concept refers to the ability to continue offering...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 6-12 November Microsoft’s security bulletin Microsoft has published its November security bulletin in which it has fixed a total of 55 bugs in its software, including six 0-day vulnerabilities, two of which...
Sergio de los Santos Chronicle Of the Attack on A Youtuber Who Knew About Cyber Security The news recently broke: youtubers with the largest number of followers are being targeted for extortion. The attacks are on the rise and the techniques are not new, but...
Rubén Menéndez Díaz Fraud against financial institutions with particular incidence in France extends its impact to national territory In September and October of this year, a malicious campaign was observed in France against the French population, affecting financial institutions, and it has spread to banks in Spain. The...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 30 October-5 November Trojan Source: vulnerability in source code compilers Researchers at the University of Cambridge have published a paper detailing a new attack method called “Trojan Source” that exploits a flaw in...
Cristina del Carmen Arroyo Siruela Monitoring technologies, a key element in cyber security IDS (Intrusion Detection System), IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) and SIEM solutions are fundamental elements in event monitoring and cybersecurity. IDSs and IPSs are intrusion detection and prevention systems that employ...
Marta Nieto Gómez-Elegido Edge Computing and Virtual Reality, new classmates It’s been a little while since the new school year started. New subjects, new challenges and new classmates. Among them, one name is becoming increasingly heard: Edge Computing. Thanks to...
Florence Broderick Our CEO, Pedro Pablo Pérez, will represent Telefonica in the European Cyber Security Organization Brussels and the cybersecurity industry will earmark up to 1.8 billion euros in research TELEFONICA JOINS THE DECISION-MAKING BODIES OF THE EUROPEAN CYBER SECURITY ORGANIZATION AS...
Florence Broderick New tool: Maltego transforms for Tacyt If you are a Maltego user, you already know how intuitive and useful it is for researching and analyzing information. You may know as well that Maltego allows to...
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 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 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...
