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...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 23-29 October Google fixes two 0-days in Chrome browser Google has released a new Chrome update (95.0.4638.69) for Windows, Mac and Linux, which fixes 7 vulnerabilities, two of them being 0-days. Regarding...
Diego Samuel Espitia Facebook affected by compromise of JavaScript development packages Programming languages such as Python and JavaScript, which in 2021 are competing for the top spot according to programmer ratings, are found in the services that we find on...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 16-22 October Zerodium interested in acquiring 0-days of Windows VPN software Information security company Zerodium has reported its willingness to purchase 0-day vulnerabilities targeting VPN service software for Windows systems: ExpressVPN, NordVPN...
Gonzalo Fernández Rodríguez Manageability: the importance of a malleable system in a Cloud Native world We recently published the post Cloud Chestnuts in The Cloud, Or What It Means That My Software in which we tried to explain what the term Cloud Native meant...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 9-15 October Microsoft Security Bulletin Microsoft has published its security bulletin for the month of October in which it has fixed a total of 81 bugs in its software, including 4 0-day...
José Luis Núñez Díaz Towards a smarter supply chain One of the recurring use cases that is always mentioned when talking about Blockchain is its application in supply chains. In fact, back in 2018, at Telefónica we were...
Alexandre Maravilla Europe’s new digital identity; sovereign identity wallets Have you ever stopped to think about how many user accounts we have on the Internet? Bank accounts, utility providers, Social Networks, email, e-commerce, … Nowadays we handle an...
ElevenPaths Squeezing the numbers and facts of Google’s annual Android security report Last month Google published its third annual security report on Android’s security protections, aiming to send a clear message to the world about mobile malware (or Potentially Harmful Applications...
Florence Broderick Telefónica and ElevenPaths announce new market leading security offering following key sector agreements
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...
ElevenPaths How to cause a DoS in Windows 8 explorer.exe We have discovered by accident how to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) in Windows 8. It’s a little bug that is present in the last version of the...
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...
