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 Cyber Security Weekly Briefing May 29- June 4 Vulnerability in SonicWall Network Security Manager SonicWall has released security patches to fix a vulnerability affecting local versions of the Network Security Manager (NSM) multi-user firewall management solution. Classified as CVE-2021-20026 and...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: Guess Riddle… How Is Information Stored In a Bitcoin Address? As we have seen in previous post on ElevenPaths blog, the OP_RETURN field of a Bitcoin transaction is used to store a small portion of information (up to 80...
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....
Alexandre Maravilla Digital Identity Wallets against identity theft fraud Identity theft or impersonation is a type of fraud in which criminals manage to supplant the identity of the person being deceived, based on the theft of their personal...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: The Attack Against the WPA2 Encryption that Poses a Threat to Our Wireless Security On October 16, a research has been published about an attack to the current recommended encryption standard for WiFi networks, WPA2. Although the risks to these networks are not...
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...
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...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 31 December – 6 January PyTorch’s dependency chain is breached PyTorch, a popular open-source machine learning framework, has warned users who installed PyTorch-nightly between 25 and 30 December 2022 to uninstall the framework and the...
Juan Elosua Tomé New FARO Version: Create Your Own Plugin and Contribute to Its Evolution We are pleased to announce the latest version of FARO, our open-source tool for detecting sensitive information, which we will briefly introduce in the following post. Nowadays, any organisation can...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Telefónica Tech’s Cybersecurity Unit Becomes Part of The European Commission’s Cybersecurity Atlas Telefónica Tech’s Innovation and Laboratory Area in cyber security has been included as part of the European Commission’s Cybersecurity Atlas, a knowledge management platform that maps, classifies, visualises and...
Franco Piergallini Guida How to Trick Apps That Use Deep Learning for Melanoma Detection One of the great achievements of deep learning is image classification using convolutional neural networks. In the article “The Internet of Health” we find a clear example where this...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing February 13-19 Privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows Defender SentinelLabs researcher Kasif Dekel has discovered a new vulnerability in Windows Defender that could have been active for more than twelve years. The flaw,...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Functional Cryptography: The Alternative to Homomorphic Encryption for Performing Calculations on Encrypted Data — Here are the exact coordinates of each operative deployed in the combat zone.— How much?— 100.000.— That is too much.— And a code that displays on screen the...
ElevenPaths WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal, Which One? In the world of smartphones, 2021 began with a piece of news that has left no one indifferent: the update of WhatsApp’s terms and conditions of use. This measure,...
Sergio de los Santos 26 Reasons Why Chrome Does Not Trust the Spanish CA Camerfirma From the imminent version 90, Chrome will show a certificate error when a user tries to access any website with a certificate signed by Camerfirma. Perhaps it is not...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing February 6-12 Attempted contamination of drinking water through a cyber-attack An unidentified threat actor reportedly accessed computer systems at the City of Oldsmar’s water treatment plant in Florida, US, and altered the...
Javier Provecho CNCF’s Harbor (cloud native registry) fixes an information disclosure bug discovered by ElevenPaths (CVE-2020-29662) On December 2nd, ElevenPaths’ CTO SRE team discovered an unauthenticated API within Harbor, a cloud native registry part of the CNCF. It is commonly used as an agnostic Docker...
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...
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...
ElevenPaths Mum, I want to be a hacker The hacker concept is most often associated with male ‘techies’ and ‘geeks’. But why is it so difficult to find female role models in the world of technology? We...
Florence Broderick New tool: PinPatrol for Chrome. Something more than a plugin, a forensics tool Back in July, we created a new tool for improving the experience using HSTS and HPKP in Firefox. Now it’s time for Chrome. It shows this information in a...
Florence Broderick ElevenPaths Talks: The ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security REGISTER HERE! On Thursday, 19 May, our colleague Sebastian will give a speech about The ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security. The standard of good practice is...
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...
