Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, zkSTARKs and the Future of Privacy in a Decentralised World In the Renaissance Italy, duels between mathematicians were common, but not by crossing steels, but by solving difficult problems. One of the hardest bones to crack at the time...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity for Industrial Digitalisation: Keys to a Successful Approach Digital technologies, and in particular what has been agreed to be called IoT (Internet of Things), bring a world of possibilities that organisations of any sector cannot fail to...
Diego Samuel Espitia When Preventing a Cyberattack Becomes a Vital Decision In recent years, the number of incidents in critical infrastructure networks and industrial systems has increased significantly. There have been attacks with a high degree of complexity and knowledge...
Andrés Naranjo Analysis of APPs Related to COVID19 Using Tacyt (II) We continue with the research started in the previous entry in which we analysed these type of applications with our Tacyt tool. Regarding the application analysed, we can see...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing September 12-18 PoC for Critical Vulnerability on Netlogon Secura researchers have published a tool to check whether a domain controller is vulnerable to the CVE-2020-1472 vulnerability on Netlogon. Last month, Microsoft patched...
Andrés Naranjo Analysis of APPs Related to COVID19 Using Tacyt (I) Taking advantage of all the attention this issue is attracting, the official app markets, Google Play and Apple Store, have been daily deluged with applications. Both platforms, especially Android,...
Sergio de los Santos What Do Criminals in the Ransomware Industry Recommend so that Ransomware Does Not Affect You? We all know the security recommendations offered by professionals on malware protection. Frequently: use common sense (personally, one of the least applicable and abstract pieces of advice that can...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing September 5-11 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Microsoft published on Tuesday its newsletter with updates for the month of September. In this new bulletin a total of 129 vulnerabilities have been corrected in 15...
Cytomic Team, unit of Panda Security Indicators of Compromise, Key to Detecting and Solving Incidents in an Agile Way Quick and agile response to incidents is a basic aspect of a good cybersecurity strategy. Little by little, more and more companies are becoming aware of this, and this...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón How to Track COVID-19 Infections, Discover Contacts On WhatsApp or Share Your Genes While Keeping Your Privacy When you sign up for a new social network, such as WhatsApp, you are often asked if you want to find out who among your contacts is already part...
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 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...
Florence Broderick Showing certificate chain without validating with Windows "certificate store" (C#) Java has its own independent certificate store. If you wish to view natively in Windows a certificate extracted from an APK or JAR file Windows may not find the...