Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 21 – 27 January Killnet targeting victims in Spain This week, the hacktivist group Killnet announced a campaign of attacks against Germany, leading to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that rendered the websites...
Marta Nieto Gómez-Elegido «We are moving towards genderless professions», María Martínez It’s a cold morning in Madrid and María Martínez Martín, Head of the Threats Intelligence Operations team at Telefónica Tech, welcomes us at the Telefónica building. Wearing a blue blazer...
Gonzalo Fernández Rodríguez What is a Cloud-Native Application? The term Cloud Native is something that goes beyond moving applications on-premises, i.e. hosted directly in a data centre to an infrastructure from a Cloud provider, whether public or...
Nacho Palou A concept popularized by a former Google CEO is more relevant today than ever A few years ago, Google’s then CEO Eric Schmidt popularised the concept of “augmented humanity”. This term refers to the ability of technology to “enhance human capabilities” to make...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 14 – 20 January Critical vulnerabilities in Netcomm and TP-Link routers Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Netcomm and TP-Link routers. On the one hand, the flaws, identified asCVE-2022-4873 and CVE-2022-4874, are a case of buffer...
Nacho Palou How to start programming in Artificial Intelligence: languages, tools and recommendations There is a very close relationship between Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI): Big Data is about capturing, processing and analysing large amounts of data. When this data is...
Jorge Rubio Consequences of a cyber-attack in industrial environments Industrial environments can be found in any type of sector we can imagine, whether in water treatment, transport, pharmaceutical, machinery manufacturing, electrical, food or automotive companies, among others. The differences...
Alberto García García-Castro Incentives in business blockchain networks: a new approach It has always been a fundamental part of the technology to use incentives that reward collaboration and good practices among participants in a blockchain network. So much so that...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 7 – 13 January Microsoft fixes 98 vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday Microsoft has published its security bulletin for the month of January, in which it fixes a total of 98 vulnerabilities. Among these, an...
Daniel Pous Montardit Observability: what it is and what it offers What is observability? The term “observability” comes from Rudolf Kalman’s control theory and refers to the ability to infer the internal state of a system based on its external outputs....
Florence Broderick New vulnerabilitites Trend Report: “Companies keep making life easier to attackers” Download the full report here You can now download the “New 2014-2015 Vulnerability Trend Report” by ElevenPaths’ Analyst Team. This vulnerability trend report analyses the data of over 100...
Florence Broderick Apps in Google Play that install an HTTP Server as a backdoor in your Android Trend Micro has discovered a very interesting problem with an SDK called Moplus that, literally, works as a backdoor for Android devices. The problems here are that this SDK...
Florence Broderick Android malware not only posing as Word documents… but Excel as well China is a paradise for “SMS stealing malware” for Android. These programs steal your SMS inbox, notebook… The only “problem” for malware creators is to induce users to...
Florence Broderick Evil FOCA is now Open Source We are really happy to announce that Evil FOCA is now Open Source. We have received lots of comments and feedback about how you are using Evil FOCA, or how...
Florence Broderick The month of the RAT in Google Play A few days ago, Lukas Stefanko from ESET discovered a new remote administration system RAT for Android. Although there are some known RATs for Android, this malware had something...
