Diego Samuel Espitia TCP/IP Stack Gruyere In May 2020 during the most complicated phase of the global pandemic, we were told that the internet was broken as a result of bugs (called Ripple20) affecting millions...
Telefónica Tech #LadyHacker: Proud of you all #LadyHacker 2021 campaign is coming to an end. Throughout this year we have followed the lives of our women, from their childhood to their maturity, including their school and...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 20-26 November Reacharound: possible resurgence of the triple threat Trickbot-Emotet-Ransomware Last January, an international action orchestrated by Europol and Eurojust led to the dismantling of the Emotet infrastructure, a malware widely used...
Martiniano Mallavibarrena Technology and social psychology applied to Internet consumption: The ” Black Friday” case No one will be surprised if we suggest that social networks and other large Internet platforms base their business model on advertising and that all of them, in some...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 13-19 November Emotet returns Security researchers from Cryptolaemus have identifed what seems to be the reappearence of the popular Emotet malware, whose infrastructure had remained inactive since January after a joint intervenion by security...
José Luis Núñez Díaz Growing impact and future potential of blockchain for telcos: A Game Changer? Could blockchain really impact on the business of communications providers? As an industry, have telcos already embraced this technology? Do they see any opportunity behind blockchain? Do blockchain and decentralized technologies...
Susana Alwasity The risks of not having controlled exposure to information (II) As promised last week in the first post of this series, this time we will talk about how to minimise the risks of our digital footprint. ¿ How to minimise...
María Teresa Nieto Galán What is happening with the public Ethereum network and will it ever be scalable? From the beginning, one of the main limitations that we have found in Blockchain technology when developing solutions is scalability. This concept refers to the ability to continue offering...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 6-12 November Microsoft’s security bulletin Microsoft has published its November security bulletin in which it has fixed a total of 55 bugs in its software, including six 0-day vulnerabilities, two of which...
Sergio de los Santos Chronicle Of the Attack on A Youtuber Who Knew About Cyber Security The news recently broke: youtubers with the largest number of followers are being targeted for extortion. The attacks are on the rise and the techniques are not new, but...
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...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths and the University of Piraeus in Greece work together using Tacyt as an educational and research unit ElevenPaths and the Department of Informatics of the University of Piraeus in Greece work together using Tacyt as an educational and research unit. ElevenPaths and the Department of Informatics of...
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...
Florence Broderick Banking trojan I+D: 64 bits versions and using TOR Malware industry needs to improve and keep on stealing. So they research and invest. There are two different ways of investing if you are “in the business”: one is...
Florence Broderick Mobile banking and banking trojans During 2012 there was an increase around 28% in mobile banking or M-Banking operations. Users can access their bank accounts from their mobile devices, mainly making use of a specifically...
