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 Your feelings influence your perception of risk and benefit more than you might think Security is both a feeling and a reality —Bruce Schneier Daniel Gardner starts his book The Science of Fear with the shocking history of US September 11 attacks: And so in...
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 New tool: PySCTChecker This is a “Quick and dirty” Python script for checking if a domain properly implements Certificate Transparency. If so, it is possible to observe how Certificate Transparency is implemented...
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...
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 Cyber Security Weekly Briefing January 2-8 SolarWinds Update To end the year, Microsoft published an update of its findings regarding the impact of the SolarWinds incident on its systems. In this release, it emphasizes that neither...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 18 – 24 February Fortinet fixes critical vulnerabilities in FortiNAC and FortiWeb Fortinet has issued a security advisory fixing two critical vulnerabilities affecting its FortiNAC and FortiWeb products. The security flaws have been registered...
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...
Sergio de los Santos How Traditional CA’s Are Losing Control of Certificates and Possible Reasons Why Chrome Will Have a New Root Store It’s all about trust. This phrase is valid in any field. Money, for example, is nothing more than a transfer of trust, because obviously we trust that for a...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing November 7-13 Links between Vatet, PyXie and Defray777 Researchers from Palo Alto Networks have investigated the families of malware and operational methodologies used by a threat agent that has managed to go...
Gabriel Álvarez Corrada 5G Connectivity and its Impact on Industry 4.0: Maturity and Evolution One of the factors that indicates the maturity of some branches of technology is the incorporation of improvements as this technology evolves, which are different from those considered at...
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 Our CEO, Pedro Pablo Pérez, will represent Telefonica in the European Cyber Security Organization Brussels and the cybersecurity industry will earmark up to 1.8 billion euros in research TELEFONICA JOINS THE DECISION-MAKING BODIES OF THE EUROPEAN CYBER SECURITY ORGANIZATION 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 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 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...