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...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths Radio English #5 – The Path After a Security Audit What is the path for a company after a security audit? It is increasingly common for companies of all sizes to decide to carry out such analyses, but what...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Nobody on The Internet Knows You Are A Dog, Even If You Use TLS Certificates You may have noticed that most websites have a little padlock on them. If you click on it, a window will pop up stating that “the connection is secure”....
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....
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing June 20-26 Millions of User Records Exposed on an Oracle Server Security researcher Anurag Sen has found an exposed database containing millions of records belonging to the company BlueKai, owned by Oracle....
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...
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...
Gabriel Bergel Digital Zombies and Social Engineering This post is about zombies and social engineering, the image in figure 1 is free and royalty free as long as you credit it, and I loved it. We...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing 29 August-4 September Red Dawn, new attached document from Emotet The use of a new attached document template by Emotet has been identified over the past week. The name given by security researcher Joseph...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing December 12-18 Supply Chain compromise: SolarWinds Orion FireEye researchers have unveiled a major global information theft and espionage operation that takes advantage of the supply chain to gain access to the systems...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Hiding Keys Under the Mat: Governments Could Ensure Universal Insecurity The doorbell rang. “Who will be ringing now?” asked Brittney Mills, as she struggled to get off the couch. Her eight months of pregnancy were beginning to hinder her...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths Radio English #5 – The Path After a Security Audit What is the path for a company after a security audit? It is increasingly common for companies of all sizes to decide to carry out such analyses, but what...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing December 5-11 Microsoft Security Newsletter On December 8, Microsoft published its monthly security update newsletter, which this time includes patches for 58 vulnerabilities and an advisory for various Microsoft products. Nine of...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón What Is Wrong with Quantum Cryptography That the World’s Largest Intelligence Agencies Discourage Its Use Quantum cryptography does not exist. What everyone understands when the term “quantum cryptography” is mentioned is actually the quantum key distribution (QKD). And this is precisely what I want...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 28 November – 4 December New version of the TrickBot malware TrickBot botnet operators have added a new capability that allows them to interact with the BIOS or UEFI firmware of an infected computer. This...
Sergio de los Santos Tell Me What Data You Request from Apple and I Will Tell You What Kind of Government You Are We recently found out that Spain sent 1,353 government requests for access to Facebook user data in the first half of 2020. Thanks to Facebook’s transparency report for the...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing November 21-27 Qbot as a prelude to Egregor ransomware infections Researchers at Group-IB security company have issued a statement claiming to have found activity linking the Qbot banking trojan (also known as...
Diego Samuel Espitia Using Development Libraries to Deploy Malware Cybercriminals seek strategies to achieve their objectives: in some cases, it is users’ information; in others, connections; sometimes they generate networks of computers under their control (botnets), etc. Any...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Nonces, Salts, Paddings and Other Random Herbs for Cryptographic Salad Dressing The chronicles of the kings of Norway has it that King Olaf Haraldsson the Saint disputed the possession of the Hísing island with his neighbour the King of Sweden....
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 New Tool: MicEnum, Mandatory Integrity Control Enumerator In the context of the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems, Mandatory Integrity Control (MIC) is a core security feature introduced in Windows Vista and implemented in subsequent lines...
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...
