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 Unravelling the Quantum Tangle of Cybersecurity: Quantum Computers, Quantum and Post-Quantum Cryptography Do you know what’ s the difference between quantum computing, quantum cryptography and post-quantum cryptography? Because to be honest, they have (almost) nothing to do with each other. They...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: Google’s project to fight election attacks On the night of the primary elections in May, the residents from the county Knox, Tennessee, did not know who had won for about an hour. They did not...
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 Dumpster diving in Bin Laden’s computers: malware, passwords, warez and metadata (I) What would you expect from a computer network that belongs to a terrorists group? Super-encrypted material? Special passwords? The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on 1 November 2017 released...
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...
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...
Franco Piergallini Guida Adversarial Attacks: The Enemy of Artificial Intelligence (II) In Machine and Deep Learning, as in any system, there are vulnerabilities and techniques that allow manipulating its behaviour at the mercy of an attacker. As we discussed in...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security in Times of Pandemic: How Has Confinement Affected Our Digital Security? The pandemic has accelerated the transition to a digital life, and with it, cyber-attacks against users and businesses have risen. The most frequent attack, which is the most common...
ElevenPaths Do I Really Need an Antivirus? How can standard users protect themselves? In this article we explain what an antivirus is for and how you can be (more) protected.
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón NFT Fever: The Latest Cryptocurrency Killing It Online In May 2007, the digital artist known as Beeple decided to create and publish a new piece of artwork on the Internet every day. True to his word, he...
Pablo Alarcón Padellano Telefónica Tech, recognized with Palo Alto Networks’ SASE, Cloud and Cortex Specializations We are the first partner in Spain awarded with Prisma SASE, Prisma Cloud and Cortex XDR/XSOAR specializations.
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing April 10-16 0-days in Chrome and Edge Security researcher Rajvardhan Agarwal has discovered a 0-day vulnerability in the current versions of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, which he has made public via his...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security in Times of Pandemic: How Has Confinement Affected Our Digital Security? The pandemic has accelerated the transition to a digital life, and with it, cyber-attacks against users and businesses have risen. The most frequent attack, which is the most common...
ElevenPaths Top 4 Programming Languages for Beginners Have you set yourself new challenges this year but don’t know where to start? How would you like to become an expert in programming? We know that, at first,...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón A Trillion-Dollar on Offer to the Puzzle Solver Are you a fan of mathematical puzzles? Well, here’s a lucrative one… but hard to beat! If you discover a method to crack the hashes used in Blockchain, you...
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...
ElevenPaths No Pain, No Gain: Let´s Hack 2021 “No pain, no gain”, you have probably heard this on more than one occasion. An expression that is used endlessly in different environments, in a time when the body...
ElevenPaths What is VPN and What is It For? VPN connections are nothing new, they have been with us for a long time, always linked to the business world. The great versatility and its different uses have made...
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...
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 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 Android malware not only posing as Word documents… but Excel as well China is a paradise for “SMS stealing malware” for Android. These programs steal your SMS inbox, notebook… The only “problem” for malware creators is to induce users to...
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...