Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 12 – 16 June Microsoft has fixed more than 70 vulnerabilities in its June Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released its June Patch Tuesday, addressing a number of critical, high, medium and low severity vulnerabilities....
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 27 May – 2 June Backdoor discovered in hundreds of Gigabyte motherboards Cybersecurity researchers at Eclypsium discovered a secret backdoor in the firmware of hundreds of Gigabyte motherboard models, a well-known Taiwanese manufacturer. Every time...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 1 — 8 July Raspberry Robin: worm detected in multiple Windows networks Microsoft has issued a private advisory to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint subscribers, informing about the detection of the Raspberry Robin malware in...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón What Differential Privacy Is and Why Google and Apple Are Using It with Your Data Differential privacy allows you to know your users without compromising their privacy, but achieving it is a complex process. Here's why.
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 19 – 23 June Critical vulnerabilities in Asus routers Asus has issued a security advisory addressing a total of nine vulnerabilities affecting multiple router models. Among these security flaws, the one registered as CVE-2022-26376,...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 12 – 16 June Microsoft has fixed more than 70 vulnerabilities in its June Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released its June Patch Tuesday, addressing a number of critical, high, medium and low severity vulnerabilities....
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...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing 30 May-5 June Security Breach in 8Belts vpnMentor researchers discovered in mid-April a data breach in the 8Belts language learning platform due to an improper configuration on an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket....
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 12 – 16 June Microsoft has fixed more than 70 vulnerabilities in its June Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released its June Patch Tuesday, addressing a number of critical, high, medium and low severity vulnerabilities....
Martiniano Mallavibarrena ‘Insiders’ in Cybersecurity: “Catch me if you can” Within companies, there is a significant window of opportunity for cybersecurity incidents: disgruntled employees, suppliers, subcontractors...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing September 19-25 New attack vector for vulnerability in Citrix Workspace Pen Test Partners security researcher Ceri Coburn has discovered a new attack vector for the CVE-2020-8207 vulnerability in Citrix Workspace corrected in...
ElevenPaths Your feelings influence your perception of risk and benefit more than you might think Security is both a feeling and a reality —Bruce Schneier Daniel Gardner starts his book The Science of Fear with the shocking history of US September 11 attacks: And so in...
ElevenPaths How to forecast the future and reduce uncertainty thanks to Bayesian inference (I) Imagine that you come back home from San Francisco, just arrived from the RSA Conference. You are unpacking your suitcase, open the drawer where you store your underwear and…...
ElevenPaths The base rate fallacy or why antiviruses, antispam filters and detection probes work worse than what is actually promised Before starting your workday, while your savoring your morning coffee, you open your favorite cybersecurity newsletter and an advertisement on a new Intrusion Detection System catches your attention: THIS IDS...
ElevenPaths If you want to change your employees’ security habits, don’t call their will, modify their environment instead You’re in a coffee bar and you need to connect your smartphone to a Wi-Fi, so you check your screen and see the following options. Imagine that you know...
ElevenPaths Don’t confuse the frequency of an incident with the ease you remember it Imagine that there have been a few robberies in two parks of your town that have got all the attention for days. This afternoon you would like to go...
ElevenPaths GSMA IoT Security Champion: Award to our IoT Security team We have a lot to be happy about! Our IoT Security team, dedicated to cybersecurity specialized in the increasingly relevant world of the Internet of Things, has received a...
ElevenPaths The hugest collection of usernames and passwords has been filtered…or not (II) Over the last entry we focused on analyzing the content of these files from a critical point of view, this is: on clarifying that when a massive leak freeing...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Post-Quantum Future Is Around the Corner and We Are Still Not Prepared Every year we have more powerful computers with a higher calculation capacity, is that fact good or bad? Think twice before giving an answer. It depends. Because if global information...
ElevenPaths The hugest collection of usernames and passwords has been filtered…or not (I) Sometimes, someone frees by mistake (or not) an enormous set of text files with millions of passwords inside. An almost endless list of e-mail accounts with their passwords or...
ElevenPaths Detected an extension in Chrome Web Store, active from February, that steals credit cards We have detected an extension for Google Chrome, still active, that steals data from web site forms visited by the victims. This extension, which is still available on Chrome...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón 2019 Won’t Be the Year When Quantum Computers Replace the Cryptography That We All Use What would happen if a fully error corrected quantum computer of several thousands of logical qubits started working today? Public key infrastructures would fall down. The secrets of the...
Florence Broderick Social engineering is more active than ever The fact that Social Engineering has been the easiest method used by the scammers is not new. What we are going to describe in this blog today has been...
Florence Broderick Research: On the overexposure of Amazon credentials in mobile apps The development of mobile applications that interact with common services in mobility environments such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service...
