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 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...
Andrés Naranjo DIARIO: One More Weapon in Thehive’s Arsenal We already know that the weakest link in the cyber security chain is the user. Studies show that the main reason why a cyber-attack on a company is successful...
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....
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Are You Crypto-Agile to Respond Quickly to Changing Cyberthreats? A business is considered agile if it is able to respond quickly to market changes, adapt to maintain stability. However, without cryptography there is no security and without security...
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...
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...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Snitch Cryptography: How to Crack Tamper-Proof Devices Google’s Titan Security Key or YubiKey from Yubico are the ultimate trend in multi-factor authentication security. According to Google’s own website: «The keys have a hardware chip with firmware designed...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 16-22 October Zerodium interested in acquiring 0-days of Windows VPN software Information security company Zerodium has reported its willingness to purchase 0-day vulnerabilities targeting VPN service software for Windows systems: ExpressVPN, NordVPN...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing March 20-26 Analysis of the new cyber-espionage group SilverFish The PRODAFT Threat Intelligence team (PTI) has discovered a highly sophisticated cybercriminal group called SilverFish, which operates exclusively against large enterprises and public...
ElevenPaths Everything You Need to Know About SSL/TLS Certificates What is a digital certificate? Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security digital certificate is the most widely used security protocol that enables encrypted data transfer between a web server and a...
Nikolaos Tsouroulas NextDefense: The ultimate cyber defence solution for any organisation It was on a Wednesday at 17:00h when the CIO of a potential customer, who was visiting our offices, asked for a meeting with the product team before leaving....
Carlos Ávila Your MacOS System Is Also A Target for Cybercrime – Protect It! According to statcounter, Apple’s operating system, macOS (formerly OSX) in particular, has a market share of around 17%, making it the second most widely used desktop operating system. This...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing March 6-12 FluBot botnet behind messaging company impersonation campaign Last Friday, researchers at Threat Fabric named the threat behind the campaign to impersonate SMS messaging companies. Specifically, they talk about the Cabassous malware, a...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Nobody on The Internet Knows You Are A Dog, Even If You Use TLS Certificates You may have noticed that most websites have a little padlock on them. If you click on it, a window will pop up stating that “the connection is secure”....
Martiniano Mallavibarrena The New Digital Workforce and The Risks Around Robotics Process Automation (RPA) In recent years, many companies in different sectors have chosen to base their digital transformation on RPA – Robot Process Automation, which has facilitated the creation of hundreds of...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 27 February – 5 March HAFNIUM attacks Microsoft Exchange servers with 0-day exploits Microsoft has detected the use of multiple 0-day exploits to carry out targeted attacks against on-premise versions of Microsoft Exchange Server (2013,...
Juan Elosua Tomé New FARO Version: Create Your Own Plugin and Contribute to Its Evolution We are pleased to announce the latest version of FARO, our open-source tool for detecting sensitive information, which we will briefly introduce in the following post. Nowadays, any organisation can...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Telefónica Tech’s Cybersecurity Unit Becomes Part of The European Commission’s Cybersecurity Atlas Telefónica Tech’s Innovation and Laboratory Area in cyber security has been included as part of the European Commission’s Cybersecurity Atlas, a knowledge management platform that maps, classifies, visualises and...
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 New tool: PinPatrol for Chrome. Something more than a plugin, a forensics tool Back in July, we created a new tool for improving the experience using HSTS and HPKP in Firefox. Now it’s time for Chrome. It shows this information in a...
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...
