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...
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...
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 APTualizator (II): Deconstructing Necurs Rootkit and Tools for Detecting and Removing It This report has been drafted by Roberto Santos and Javier Rascón from the CSIRT-SCC (Security Cyberoperations Center) Research Team, in collaboration with ElevenPaths. At the end of June 2019, a big Spanish company was attacked and thousands of their computers were impacted. Such was...
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...
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...
Nacho Palou How language puts business Cybersecurity at risk Cybersecurity is crucial for businesses and organizations of all sizes and sectors. Cyberattacks can have severe or even fatal consequences for businesses, such as data loss, operational disruptions, or...
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...
ElevenPaths Open source maintainer burnout as an attack surface Introduction Software development has evolved greatly in the last decades. It is leaning towards an scenario based in third-party modules, components and libraries that help accelerate the development of our...
ElevenPaths New report: Twitter botnets detection in sports event We all know that a botnet is a number of Internet-connected devices, each of which is running one or more bots. Botnets can be used to perform DDoS attacks,...
ElevenPaths AuthCode: Our award-winning continuous-authentication system, jointly developed with the University of Murcia Continuous-authentication systems aim to identify users’ behavior through interactions with their device. The main advantage of this type of authentication is that it improves users’ experience when using services...
ElevenPaths The Confirmation Bias: we seek the information that confirms our decisions, refusing their opposed evidences Imagine yourself in a lab over an experiment. You’re asked to analyze the following number sequence: 2, 4, 6 This sequence follows a rule. What do you think the rule is?...
ElevenPaths Cyberintelligence Report: Global Banking Cyber Report As the world becomes more digital, new opportunities and threats arise and we tend to focus more on our daily business. As a result, when we are trying to...
ElevenPaths The Framing Effect: you make your choices depending on how information is presented You have received an alert from cyber intelligence. A terrible and enormous cyberattack is approaching. You must ensure the protection of 600 positions within your organization. You don’t have...
ElevenPaths CapaciCard: an Elevenpaths’ own physical technology materializing simple identification and authorization Can you imagine to be able to authenticate or authorize a payment just by placing a plastic card on your mobile phone screen? (without circuitry, neither NFC connection nor...
ElevenPaths m33tfinder: a vulnerability on Cisco Meeting Server detected by ElevenPaths On November 7th, while we were holding our Security Innovation Day, Cisco published a security advisory with CVE-2018-15446 associated to a vulnerability on the software Cisco Meeting Server reported by our Innovation and Labs...
ElevenPaths You are less rational than you think when you take decisions under uncertain conditions I propose you the following game of luck: Option A: I give 1,000 € to you with a probability of 100%. Option B: Let’s leave it to heads or tails: if...
ElevenPaths DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is already here: the controversy is served Recently, the IETF has raised to RFC the DNS over HTTPS proposal. In other words, this means resolving domains through the well-known HTTPS, with its corresponding POST, GET and certifications...
Innovation Marketing Team Partnerships that escalate entrepreneurship and innovate the corporation: Ten Wayra startups that do business with Vivo With 10 years of operations, Wayra has transformed the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Brazil and worldwide. Since its launch in 2011, when it was created to support entrepreneurship, Wayra has...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths announces that its security platform complies with the new european data protection regulation one year earlier than required The European regulations will enter into force in May 2018, when entities that do not comply can be penalized with fines of up to 4% of their annual turnover. ElevenPaths...
Florence Broderick Latch Plugins Contest 2016 is over Today, Monday, December 12 at 1 pm (CET), was the deadline for the submission of plugin applications to the Latch Plugins Contest, the Latch contest that looks for innovative...
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...
Florence Broderick "Not today downloaders": New downloaders techniques in Google Play Downloaders are not new in Android, but lately, they are getting more and more important for attackers as a method to avoid Google Play barriers and malware detection. In...
