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 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...
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...
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....
Sergio de los Santos Pay When You Get Infected by Ransomware? Many Shades of Grey The Internet is full of articles explaining why ransomware should not be paid. And they are probably right, but if you don’t make a difference between the type of ransomware and...
David García Will Rust save the world? (II) We saw in the previous article the problems of manual memory management, but also the pitfalls of automatic memory management in languages like Java. But what if there was...
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...
Telefónica Tech's Innovation and Laboratory Area #CyberSecurityReport2021H2: Log4Shell, the vulnerability that has exposed the software’s reliance on altruistically maintained libraries and their enormous security impact. There are many reports on security trends and security summaries, but Telefónica Tech wants to make a difference. The Innovation and Lab team has just launched our own report...
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 No Pain, No Gain: Let´s Hack 2021 “No pain, no gain”, you have probably heard this on more than one occasion. An expression that is used endlessly in different environments, in a time when the body...
ElevenPaths What is VPN and What is It For? VPN connections are nothing new, they have been with us for a long time, always linked to the business world. The great versatility and its different uses have made...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing March 20-26 Analysis of the new cyber-espionage group SilverFish The PRODAFT Threat Intelligence team (PTI) has discovered a highly sophisticated cybercriminal group called SilverFish, which operates exclusively against large enterprises and public...
ElevenPaths Everything You Need to Know About SSL/TLS Certificates What is a digital certificate? Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security digital certificate is the most widely used security protocol that enables encrypted data transfer between a web server and a...
Nikolaos Tsouroulas NextDefense: The ultimate cyber defence solution for any organisation It was on a Wednesday at 17:00h when the CIO of a potential customer, who was visiting our offices, asked for a meeting with the product team before leaving....
Carlos Ávila Your MacOS System Is Also A Target for Cybercrime – Protect It! According to statcounter, Apple’s operating system, macOS (formerly OSX) in particular, has a market share of around 17%, making it the second most widely used desktop operating system. This...
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”....
Martiniano Mallavibarrena The New Digital Workforce and The Risks Around Robotics Process Automation (RPA) In recent years, many companies in different sectors have chosen to base their digital transformation on RPA – Robot Process Automation, which has facilitated the creation of hundreds of...
ElevenPaths #LadyHacker 2021, IT’S HERE! If you’ve never heard of #LadyHacker you’re probably wondering what this hashtag is or what it means. Don’t get it wrong, #LadyHacker is not a hashtag, it’s an initiative...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 27 February – 5 March HAFNIUM attacks Microsoft Exchange servers with 0-day exploits Microsoft has detected the use of multiple 0-day exploits to carry out targeted attacks against on-premise versions of Microsoft Exchange Server (2013,...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths and the University of Piraeus in Greece work together using Tacyt as an educational and research unit ElevenPaths and the Department of Informatics of the University of Piraeus in Greece work together using Tacyt as an educational and research unit. ElevenPaths and the Department of Informatics of...
Florence Broderick Top of the app charts. Shuabang: automated malware made in China Have you ever wondered how some apps rocket up the charts so quickly? Sometimes you’ll spot one that seems like a curveball, like a pub rock covers band hitting...
Florence Broderick "Not today downloaders": New downloaders techniques in Google Play Downloaders are not new in Android, but lately, they are getting more and more important for attackers as a method to avoid Google Play barriers and malware detection. In...
Florence Broderick Banking trojan I+D: 64 bits versions and using TOR Malware industry needs to improve and keep on stealing. So they research and invest. There are two different ways of investing if you are “in the business”: one is...
Florence Broderick Mobile banking and banking trojans During 2012 there was an increase around 28% in mobile banking or M-Banking operations. Users can access their bank accounts from their mobile devices, mainly making use of a specifically...
