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 Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing August 15-21 EmoCrash: stopping Emotet for almost 6 months Emotet’s comeback after a 6 month-period absence has hinted that the hiatus in the malware’s operations could be due to the discovery of...
Antonio Gil Moyano Homeworking: Balancing Corporate Control and Employee Privacy (I) At this point in time and looking back on 2020, nobody would have imagined the advance in the digitalisation of organisations and companies due to the irruption of homeworking...
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....
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Post-Quantum Future Is Around the Corner and We Are Still Not Prepared Every year we have more powerful computers with a higher calculation capacity, is that fact good or bad? Think twice before giving an answer. It depends. Because if global information...
ElevenPaths A story about two minds: the vast difference between real and perceived risk “In our society it is generally not considered justifiable to make a decision purely on an emotional response. We want to be considered scientific and rational, so we come up with...
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...
Cristina del Carmen Arroyo Siruela Understanding Digital Certificates For ordinary citizens, digital certificates are those electronic files or documents that allow them to carry out thousands of legal actions, administrative actions, and they can dispense with having...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, zkSTARKs and the Future of Privacy in a Decentralised World In the Renaissance Italy, duels between mathematicians were common, but not by crossing steels, but by solving difficult problems. One of the hardest bones to crack at the time...
ElevenPaths GSMA IoT Security Champion: Award to our IoT Security team We have a lot to be happy about! Our IoT Security team, dedicated to cybersecurity specialized in the increasingly relevant world of the Internet of Things, has received a...
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...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Post-Quantum Future Is Around the Corner and We Are Still Not Prepared Every year we have more powerful computers with a higher calculation capacity, is that fact good or bad? Think twice before giving an answer. It depends. Because if global information...
ElevenPaths The hugest collection of usernames and passwords has been filtered…or not (I) Sometimes, someone frees by mistake (or not) an enormous set of text files with millions of passwords inside. An almost endless list of e-mail accounts with their passwords or...
ElevenPaths Detected an extension in Chrome Web Store, active from February, that steals credit cards We have detected an extension for Google Chrome, still active, that steals data from web site forms visited by the victims. This extension, which is still available on Chrome...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón 2019 Won’t Be the Year When Quantum Computers Replace the Cryptography That We All Use What would happen if a fully error corrected quantum computer of several thousands of logical qubits started working today? Public key infrastructures would fall down. The secrets of the...
ElevenPaths Open source maintainer burnout as an attack surface Introduction Software development has evolved greatly in the last decades. It is leaning towards an scenario based in third-party modules, components and libraries that help accelerate the development of our...
ElevenPaths New report: Twitter botnets detection in sports event We all know that a botnet is a number of Internet-connected devices, each of which is running one or more bots. Botnets can be used to perform DDoS attacks,...
ElevenPaths AuthCode: Our award-winning continuous-authentication system, jointly developed with the University of Murcia Continuous-authentication systems aim to identify users’ behavior through interactions with their device. The main advantage of this type of authentication is that it improves users’ experience when using services...
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...
