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 Securing a Cloud Environment With a Telco Cloud Provider Nowadays, nobody can deny the remarkable benefits of cloud computing, both infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). Cloud computing drives cost savings, agility to...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Are You Crypto-Agile to Respond Quickly to Changing Cyberthreats? A business is considered agile if it is able to respond quickly to market changes, adapt to maintain stability. However, without cryptography there is no security and without security...
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 New research: Docless Vietnam APT. A very interesting malware against Vietnam Government We have detected a malware sent to some email accounts belonging to a Vietnam government domain. This email is written in Vietnamese and is dated March 13th, 2019. It seems to...
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...
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...
ElevenPaths How to Detect and Protect Yourself from Phishing Attacks in Times of Coronavirus The overinformation caused by the huge amount of news we receive about coronavirus makes it harder to distinguish true from fake emails. This poses a great risk to people’s security, since it...
Sandra Tello The COVID crisis and diversity in the technology field The pandemic has highlighted the need for STEM profiles The coronavirus pandemic is estimated to have accelerated digitalisation by 5 to 10 years. This means that the technology sector will...
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...
ElevenPaths Telefónica WannaCry File Restorer: How can we recover information deleted by WannaCry? When cyberattacks occur in large organizations, it is crucial to remember where duplicate files are stored, as this information is also subject to infection by a malware virus or...
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 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 Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? The dilemma of managed security Organizations are facing a context of increasingly complex IT threats jeopardizing the everyday development of production processes. We are referring to persistent advanced attacks, zero-day threats, industrial espionage, hacktivism,...
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...