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 Mechanisms for Everyday Life It is becoming more and more common to find in the general media news related to cyber-attacks, data breaches, privacy scandals and, in short, all kinds of security incidents....
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths 46% Of the Main Spanish Websites Use Google Analytics Cookies Before the Consent Required by The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) Over the past few months, many IT departments have been busy carrying out this task of adaptation in order to comply with the new regulations on cookies. Every time...
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, 18 – 24 March HinataBot: new botnet dedicated to DDoS attacks Researchers at Akamai have published a report stating that they have identified a new botnet called HinataBot that has the capability to perform...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 4 – 10 December Catalan government suffers DDoS attack According to the statement issued by the Catalan government, the Centre de Telecomunicacions i Tecnologies de la Informació (CTTI) detected last Friday a cyber-attack that compromised more...
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...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 20-26 November Reacharound: possible resurgence of the triple threat Trickbot-Emotet-Ransomware Last January, an international action orchestrated by Europol and Eurojust led to the dismantling of the Emotet infrastructure, a malware widely used...
Martiniano Mallavibarrena Attention: Data leak! (In search of lost data) We have been hearing about “data leaks” on a regular basis for years, both in the media and in our professional or even personal environment. The concept actually covers...
David García Will Rust save the world? (II) We saw in the previous article the problems of manual memory management, but also the pitfalls of automatic memory management in languages like Java. But what if there was...
Sergio de los Santos Four cyber security milestones that shaped the future of malware A journey through the 15 years Microsoft has spent consolidating a strategy that has impacted cybersecurity globally
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 15 – 19 May Vulnerabilities in cloud platforms Otorio’s team of researchers found 11 vulnerabilities affecting different cloud management platform providers. Sierra Wireless, Teltonika Networks and InHand Networks are the affected companies. The security flaws...
Sergio de los Santos Pay When You Get Infected by Ransomware? Many Shades of Grey The Internet is full of articles explaining why ransomware should not be paid. And they are probably right, but if you don’t make a difference between the type of ransomware and...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 22 – 28 April SolarWinds fixes high severity vulnerabilities In its latest security update, SolarWinds has fixed a total of 2 high-severity vulnerabilities, which could lead to command execution and privilege escalation. The more...
Juan Carlos Vigo López Secure Digital Workplace: chronicle of a foretold (and necessary) evolution The changes that have taken place in the Digital Workplace lately have put some technological areas under stress, as we have had to adapt to the evolutions during and...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 7 — 14 October Critical vulnerability in Fortinet Fortinet has issued a security advisory to its customers urging them to update their FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxy, in order to fix a critical authentication bypass...
Telefónica Tech Attacking login credentials An access credential is basically a username and password associated with a person and the access permissions granted to that person for an application, service or system. An access...
Carlos Ávila IoTM Mobile Applications and The Relevance Of Their Security Almost a year ago in the article “Internet of Health“ I described how incredible is the amount of applications and devices that the medical industry has deployed and will...
ElevenPaths DevSecOps: 7 Key Factors for Implementing Security in Devops DevSecOps, also known as SecDevOps, is a software development philosophy that advocates the adoption of security throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). DevSecOps is more than just a specific...
Florence Broderick Quick and dirty script in Powershell to check certificate fingerprints Malware is using signed binaries to attack Windows systems. Malware needs it to get into the roots of the operative system. So attackers steal or create their own certificates....
Florence Broderick Telefónica and ElevenPaths announce new market leading security offering following key sector agreements
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 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...
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...
