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 April 3-9 Malware distribution campaign via LinkedIn The eSentire research team has published details on the analysis of a new malware distribution campaign via LinkedIn. Threat actors are sending zipped files under...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths ChainLock, A Linux Tool for Locking Down Important Files Let’s say you have a valuable file on your computer, such as a bitcoin wallet file (“wallet.dat”), or some other file with sensitive information, and you decide put a...
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....
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 30 October-5 November Trojan Source: vulnerability in source code compilers Researchers at the University of Cambridge have published a paper detailing a new attack method called “Trojan Source” that exploits a flaw in...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths Approaches the Cyber Security Paradigm Shift and the New Era’ s Digital Transformation in the SID 2020 Telefónica Tech’s cyber security company is holding its 8th Security Innovation Days, this time in a virtual format and extending from one to three half-days, on October 20th, 21st...
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...
Nacho Palou How language puts business Cybersecurity at risk Cybersecurity is crucial for businesses and organizations of all sizes and sectors. Cyberattacks can have severe or even fatal consequences for businesses, such as data loss, operational disruptions, or...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing June 19-25 SonicWall fixes a critical vulnerability that had been partially fixed In October last year, SonicWall fixed a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in SonicOS under the identifier CVE-2020-5135, which affected more than...
Sergio de los Santos A government is known by the Apple data it requests Sometimes, governments need to be underpinned by huge corporations to carry out their work. When a threat depends on knowing the identity or gaining access to a potential attacker...
ElevenPaths Your feelings influence your perception of risk and benefit more than you might think Security is both a feeling and a reality —Bruce Schneier Daniel Gardner starts his book The Science of Fear with the shocking history of US September 11 attacks: And so in...
ElevenPaths Why you are late delivering all your projects and what you can do to address it Anyone who causes harm by forecasting should be treated as either a fool or a liar. Some forecasters cause more damage to society than criminals. —Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan, 2007 In 1957,...
ElevenPaths How the “antimalware” XProtect for MacOS works and why it detects poorly and badly Recently, MacOS included a signature in its integrated antivirus, intended to detect a binary for Windows; but, does this detection make sense? We could think it does, as a...
ElevenPaths How to forecast the future and reduce uncertainty thanks to Bayesian inference (II) In the first part of this article we explained how Bayesian inference works. According to Norman Fenton, author of Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks: Bayes’ theorem is...
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...
ElevenPaths How to forecast the future and reduce uncertainty thanks to Bayesian inference (I) Imagine that you come back home from San Francisco, just arrived from the RSA Conference. You are unpacking your suitcase, open the drawer where you store your underwear and…...
ElevenPaths The base rate fallacy or why antiviruses, antispam filters and detection probes work worse than what is actually promised Before starting your workday, while your savoring your morning coffee, you open your favorite cybersecurity newsletter and an advertisement on a new Intrusion Detection System catches your attention: THIS IDS...
ElevenPaths If you want to change your employees’ security habits, don’t call their will, modify their environment instead You’re in a coffee bar and you need to connect your smartphone to a Wi-Fi, so you check your screen and see the following options. Imagine that you know...
ElevenPaths Don’t confuse the frequency of an incident with the ease you remember it Imagine that there have been a few robberies in two parks of your town that have got all the attention for days. This afternoon you would like to go...
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 Information leakage in Data Loss Prevention leader companies Gartner has released a study that classifies the most important companies that offer Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions depending on their position, strategy, effectiveness, and market leadership. We have made...
