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 What Differential Privacy Is and Why Google and Apple Are Using It with Your Data Differential privacy allows you to know your users without compromising their privacy, but achieving it is a complex process. Here's why.
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...
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 Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing 30 May-5 June Security Breach in 8Belts vpnMentor researchers discovered in mid-April a data breach in the 8Belts language learning platform due to an improper configuration on an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket....
ElevenPaths Breaking Out HSTS (and HPKP) on Firefox, IE/Edge and (possibly) Chrome. Our Black Hat research We have been for a long time researching about HSTS, HPKP, certificate pinning and TLS technologies in general. As a collateral effect of this work, we have found some...
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 Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing September 12-18 PoC for Critical Vulnerability on Netlogon Secura researchers have published a tool to check whether a domain controller is vulnerable to the CVE-2020-1472 vulnerability on Netlogon. Last month, Microsoft patched...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 12-18 February Researchers develop exploit for critical vulnerability in Magento Positive Technologies’ offensive security team has developed a Proof of Concept (PoC) for the CVE-2022-24086 CVSSv3 9.8 vulnerability, claiming that it would allow control...
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...
ElevenPaths Squeezing the numbers and facts of Google’s annual Android security report Last month Google published its third annual security report on Android’s security protections, aiming to send a clear message to the world about mobile malware (or Potentially Harmful Applications...
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 FOCA Final Version, the ultimate FOCA You all know FOCA. Over the years, it had a great acceptation and became quite popular. Eleven Path has killed the FOCA to turn it into a professional service,...
Florence Broderick How does blacklisting work in Java and how to take advantage of it (using whitelisting) Oracle has introduced the notion of whitelisting in its latest version of Java 7 update 40. That is a great step ahead (taken too late) in security for this...
