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...
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...
Sergio de los Santos The Attack on SolarWinds Reveals Two Nightmares: What Has Been Done Right and What Has Been Done Wrong All cyber security professionals now know at least part of what was originally thought to be “just” an attack on SolarWinds, which has just truned out to be one...
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, 21 January – 3 February LockBit Green: new LockBit variant Researchers at vx-underground have recently detected that a new ransomware variant, called LockBit Green, is being used by the LockBit ransomware handlers. This new variant...
Rafael Ortiz How to Make API REST Requests to Tor Hidden Services in an Android APK If you are a developer and want to test your Android app with a Tor hidden service, here's how.
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...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Uncovering APTualizator: the APT that patches Windows By the end of June 2019, we assisted to an incident were a high number of computers had started to reboot abnormally. In parallel, was detected a file called...
New Markets Team The impact of cybersecurity attacks on SMEs and corporates New Markets from Telefónica Cyber & Cloud Tech, together with Telefónica Global Solutions and GlobalData delivered a webinar highlighting the impact of cybersecurity attacks on both small and medium-sized...
ElevenPaths New research: we discover how to avoid SmartScreen via COM Hijacking and with no privileges COM Hijacking technique has a simple theoretical basis, similar to the DLL Hijacking one: What does it happen when an application searches for a non-existent COM object on the...
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 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...
José Luis Núñez Díaz Towards a smarter supply chain One of the recurring use cases that is always mentioned when talking about Blockchain is its application in supply chains. In fact, back in 2018, at Telefónica we were...
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...
Florence Broderick ElevenPaths Talks: The ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security REGISTER HERE! On Thursday, 19 May, our colleague Sebastian will give a speech about The ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security. The standard of good practice is...
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 Introducing Mobile Connect – the new standard in digital authentication The Mobile Operators hold the future of digital authentication in our hands, and so do our customers. The consumers will no longer need to create and manage multiple user...