Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 5-11 March Mozilla patches two 0-day vulnerabilities Mozilla has issued a security advisory patching two 0-day vulnerabilities that are reportedly being actively exploited and affect Firefox, Focus and Thunderbird. Both vulnerabilities were...
Telefónica Tech 42 Madrid students solve Telefónica Tech’s challenges In recent years, cybersecurity has become a major cornerstone for businesses. Data is today’s gold and protecting it is an essential part of a project. In 2021, there were...
Telefónica Tech Telefónica Tech AI of Things made real In a previous post of our blog, we already told you how the combination of technologies based on Artificial Intelligence, Iot and Big Data, the “Artificial Intelligence of Things”,...
María Teresa Nieto Galán Understanding the concept of “rollup” for blockchain scalability In previous articles we have already discussed how important scalability is in Blockchain technology and how this ecosystem is starting to create solutions to achieve faster and more computationally...
Alexandre Maravilla Are SMS for sending verification codes secure? I recently forgot the password to access the personal area of my current bank’s online banking app. I show you the process of resetting the password, carried out from...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 28 February – 4 March Daxin: highly sophisticated backdoor Researchers at Symantec have published a paper reporting a new backdoor they have called Daxin, which they attribute to actors linked to China. According to Symantec,...
Telefónica Tech AI of Things(I): Multiplying the value of connected things Written by Álvaro Capell and David Bonomo The recent media explosion of the metaverse concept has overshadowed another technological trend, augmented or mixed reality, which is transforming the way we...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 19-25 February New privilege escalation flaw in Linux Security researchers at Qualys have discovered seven flaws in Canonical’s Snap software packaging and deployment system used in operating systems that use the Linux...
Emilio Moreno Life at the border Today’s article is not going to be about cowboy movies, nor about the Limes of the Roman Empire, nor about Radio Futura’s song even though it may seem like...
Paloma, Recuero de los Santos Green data centers: fighting climate pollution from Internet use Do you have any idea how the Internet affects the environment? According to World Bank data, 48.5% of the world’s population was already connected to the Internet in 2017...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths creates an addon to make Firefox compatible with Certificate Transparency Certificate Transparency will be mandatory in Chrome for new certificates in late 2017. This means that the webpages will show an alert if protected by certificates not present in...
Florence Broderick Now you can use Latch with Dropbox, Facebook and others digital services Many of you have asked us which services you can use Latch with, regretting that so far it could not be used in the more common services, such 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 Heartbleed plugin for FOCA By now, everyone knows about Heartbleed. Just like we did for FaasT, we have created a plugin for FOCA (final version) one of our most downloaded tools. This plugin...
