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 Telefónica Invests in Nozomi Networks, a Leading Company in OT and IoT Security The investment reinforces an earlier joint services agreement with Nozomi Networks and ElevenPaths, Telefónica Tech’s cybersecurity company
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: The eternal dispute: backdoors and national security A bipartisan group of legislators from the house of representatives has introduced a piece of legistation which will prevent the federal government of the United States from demanding companies...
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 #CyberSecurityPulse: Oops, I Went Running and I Published Information From Secret Locations The popular fitness tracking app Strava proudly published a 2017 heat map showing activities from its users around the world, but unfortunately, the map revealed locations of the United...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: Army Launches Direct Commissioning Program for Civilian Cybersecurity Experts The Army has approved a program to recruit experienced cybersecurity experts directly into the service as cyber officers in an attempt to bolster a growing field that military leaders...
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 Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 22-28 January New vulnerabilities in Linux Two new vulnerabilities of risk have recently been disclosed and are reportedly affecting Linux systems. If exploited, they could allow privilege escalation on the vulnerable system. CVE-2021-4034...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing August 8-14 Hackers attempt to exploit critical vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP ADC The FBI has issued a Private Industry Notification warning that a group of Iranian hackers have been trying to exploit...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 30 January – 5 February Chrome will reject Camerfirma’s certificates Google plans to ban and remove Chrome’s support for digital certificates issued by the certification authority (CA) Camerfirma, a Spanish company that is widely deployed...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Snitch Cryptography: How to Crack Tamper-Proof Devices Google’s Titan Security Key or YubiKey from Yubico are the ultimate trend in multi-factor authentication security. According to Google’s own website: «The keys have a hardware chip with firmware designed...
Amador Aparicio CVE 2020-35710 or How Your RAS Gateway Secure Reveals Your Organisation’s Intranet Parallels RAS (Remote Application Server) is a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and application delivery solution that enables an organisation’s employees and clients to access and use applications, desktops and...
Diego Samuel Espitia Detecting the Indicators of An Attack We always choose to implement prevention and deterrence rather than containment mechanisms in security. However, the implementation of these mechanisms is not always effective or simple to set up...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing January 23-29 Attack against SonicWall by exploiting a possible 0-day in its VPN appliances Firewall manufacturer SonicWall has issued a security alert warning that it has detected a sophisticated attack against...
ElevenPaths 4 Tips to Secure Your Data We surf the Internet on a daily basis. Many of us are already considered digital natives. Yes, it is almost an extension of us, but are we really aware...
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...
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...