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 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...
Alejandro Maroto Steps to move security solutions forward in the face of current world challenges Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk recently addressed the Telefónica Global Security Summit with some thoughts to share on the direction of security and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic....
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....
David García Bestiary of a Poorly Managed Memory (I) WannaCry, EternalBlue, Conficker... their cyber attacks have one thing in common: the arbitrary code execution. Discover how they happen.
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...
Carlos Ávila Your MacOS System Is Also A Target for Cybercrime – Protect It! According to statcounter, Apple’s operating system, macOS (formerly OSX) in particular, has a market share of around 17%, making it the second most widely used desktop operating system. This...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 16-22 October Zerodium interested in acquiring 0-days of Windows VPN software Information security company Zerodium has reported its willingness to purchase 0-day vulnerabilities targeting VPN service software for Windows systems: ExpressVPN, NordVPN...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón What Is Wrong with Quantum Cryptography That the World’s Largest Intelligence Agencies Discourage Its Use Quantum cryptography does not exist. What everyone understands when the term “quantum cryptography” is mentioned is actually the quantum key distribution (QKD). And this is precisely what I want...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 28 November – 4 December New version of the TrickBot malware TrickBot botnet operators have added a new capability that allows them to interact with the BIOS or UEFI firmware of an infected computer. This...
Sergio de los Santos Tell Me What Data You Request from Apple and I Will Tell You What Kind of Government You Are We recently found out that Spain sent 1,353 government requests for access to Facebook user data in the first half of 2020. Thanks to Facebook’s transparency report for the...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing November 21-27 Qbot as a prelude to Egregor ransomware infections Researchers at Group-IB security company have issued a statement claiming to have found activity linking the Qbot banking trojan (also known as...
Diego Samuel Espitia Using Development Libraries to Deploy Malware Cybercriminals seek strategies to achieve their objectives: in some cases, it is users’ information; in others, connections; sometimes they generate networks of computers under their control (botnets), etc. Any...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Nonces, Salts, Paddings and Other Random Herbs for Cryptographic Salad Dressing The chronicles of the kings of Norway has it that King Olaf Haraldsson the Saint disputed the possession of the Hísing island with his neighbour the King of Sweden....
Sergio de los Santos A Simple Explanation About SAD DNS and Why It Is a Disaster (or a Blessing) In 2008, Kaminsky shook the foundations of the Internet. A design flaw in the DNS made it possible to fake responses and send a victim wherever the attacker wanted....
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing November 14-20 Malware distribution campaign supplants the identity of Spanish ministries ESET researchers warn of a malware distribution campaign that is impersonating Spanish ministries to distribute a malicious Android application through links...
Andrés Naranjo The Challenge of Online Identity (I): Identity Is the New Perimeter We often find ourselves in situations where we are faced with a mission and, as the mission goes on, we realise that the first choices we made were not...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Rock, Paper, Scissors and Other Ways to Commit Now and Reveal Later Have you ever played rock, paper, scissors? I bet you have. Well, let’s put the tin lid on it: how would you play through the phone? One thing is...
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...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths creates an addon to make Firefox compatible with Certificate Transparency Certificate Transparency will be mandatory in Chrome for new certificates in late 2017. This means that the webpages will show an alert if protected by certificates not present in...
Florence Broderick Now you can use Latch with Dropbox, Facebook and others digital services Many of you have asked us which services you can use Latch with, regretting that so far it could not be used in the more common services, such as...
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...
Florence Broderick Heartbleed plugin for FOCA By now, everyone knows about Heartbleed. Just like we did for FaasT, we have created a plugin for FOCA (final version) one of our most downloaded tools. This plugin...
