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...
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 Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing July 11-17 Combining Citrix vulnerabilities to steal user sessions On July 7th, Citrix published a security bulletin to correct up to 11 vulnerabilities. A few days later, a report was released with...
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....
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Unravelling the Quantum Tangle of Cybersecurity: Quantum Computers, Quantum and Post-Quantum Cryptography Do you know what’ s the difference between quantum computing, quantum cryptography and post-quantum cryptography? Because to be honest, they have (almost) nothing to do with each other. They...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 17-23 July Global cyber-espionage investigation published A joint consortium of organizations and media outlets has published an investigation revealing the indiscriminate marketing and use of Pegasus spyware. According to the investigators, a...
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...
Diego Samuel Espitia A practical approach to integrating MITRE’s ATT&CK and D3FEND Businesses have become aware of the need to have mechanisms in place to ensure the protection of their information and how important it is to understand their weaknesses in...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 18 – 24 December Log4Shell Vulnerability (update) Through the week new details and comments around the vulnerability known as Log4Shell have continued to appear. First, a new denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Log4j2 on versions from 2.0-alpha1...
Carlos Ávila Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and its Mobile Applications For scientists and researchers, optimising time in a laboratory nowadays plays a key role in processing and delivering results. There are applications that have specialised capabilities for R&D laboratories,...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing January 16-22 SolarWinds Update New details have been released about the software supply chain compromise unveiled in December. FireEye researchers have published an analysis that puts the focus on the threat actor called...
Antonio Gil Moyano Homeworking: Balancing Corporate Control and Employee Privacy (II) As a continuation of the first article in which we saw both the regulation of homeworking and the security and privacy measures in this modality, in this second issue...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Plausibly Deniable Encryption or How to Reveal A Key Without Revealing It When the secret police arrested Andrea at the airport checkpoint, she thought it was a mere formality reserved for all foreign citizens. When they searched her luggage and found...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing January 9-15 Sunburst shows code matches with Russian-associated malware Researchers have found that the Sunburst malware used during the SolarWinds supply chain attack is consistent in its characteristics with Kazuar, a .NET...
Sergio de los Santos The Attack on SolarWinds Reveals Two Nightmares: What Has Been Done Right and What Has Been Done Wrong All cyber security professionals now know at least part of what was originally thought to be “just” an attack on SolarWinds, which has just truned out to be one...
Antonio Gil Moyano Homeworking: Balancing Corporate Control and Employee Privacy (I) At this point in time and looking back on 2020, nobody would have imagined the advance in the digitalisation of organisations and companies due to the irruption of homeworking...
Carlos Ávila WhatsApp Terms and Conditions Update: A Cheeky Move? Surely by now many have already accepted the new terms and privacy policies without really knowing what they were about or their impact on the privacy of their data,...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing January 2-8 SolarWinds Update To end the year, Microsoft published an update of its findings regarding the impact of the SolarWinds incident on its systems. In this release, it emphasizes that neither...
Franco Piergallini Guida The First Official Vulnerabilities in Machine Learning in General Today you are nobody on the market if you do not use a Machine Learning system. Whether it is a system of nested “ifs” or a model of real...
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...
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 Mobile Connect winner of the 'Connected Life Awards' Mobile Connect is a multi-operator solution driven by GSMA for universal secure access. The user only needs to link their information to their mobile device solution to have quick...
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 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...
