Javier Coronado Blazquez Big Data in basic research: from elementary particles to black holes Big Data paradigm has profoundly penetrated all the layers of our society, changing the way in which we interact with each other and technological projects are carried out. Basic...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 25 – 31 March GitHub exposes its RSA SSH host key by mistake GitHub announced last Friday that they had replaced their RSA SSH host key used to protect Git operations. According to the...
Roberto García Esteban Cloud terms you can’t miss It was George Favaloro and Sean O’Sullivan, managers of Compaq Computer, who first used the expression “Cloud Computing” in 1996, and since then, the term has become so popular...
Nacho Palou Cybercrime, a constant threat to all types of companies Cyber threats have existed since technology began to be used in companies and organizations. But the evolution of the technology world in the 21st century has changed the landscape:...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 18 – 24 March HinataBot: new botnet dedicated to DDoS attacks Researchers at Akamai have published a report stating that they have identified a new botnet called HinataBot that has the capability to perform...
Nacho Palou 5G connectivity: Four real and practical use cases According to data from GSMA, collected by the publication Redes & Telecom, by the end of 2022, over one billion 5G connections had been surpassed worldwide; this figure will...
Susana Alwasity Cybersecurity: “black swan“ events in a connected world In today’s society, technology has transformed the way we live, work and interact. A greater risk of cyber threats has arisen with the increased use of internet-connected devices and...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 11 – 17 March A new version of the Xenomorph banking trojan ThreatFabric researchers have detected a new variant of the Android banking trojan Xenomorph. This malware family was first detected in February 2022...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Mathematics against cyber-crime: how to detect fraud, manipulation and cyber-attacks using Benford’s Law In the early 20th Century, when calculators, computers and smartphones did not yet exist, scientists and engineers used tables of logarithms compiled in thick volumes for their calculations. For...
Nacho Palou 5 free online courses to learn IoT (Internet of Things) in 2023 Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the new generation digital technologies with significant impact in multiple sectors, from industry to agriculture, health, and energy. IoT creates new business...
ElevenPaths Telefónica WannaCry File Restorer: How can we recover information deleted by WannaCry? When cyberattacks occur in large organizations, it is crucial to remember where duplicate files are stored, as this information is also subject to infection by a malware virus or...
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 Turkish behind pr0nClicker, uploads badware to Google Play for the fourth time During last week, the Turkish (maybe a gang, maybe just a person) behind the pr0nClickers malware got to avoid Google Play defenses and upload again dozens of fake apps...
Florence Broderick JSDialers: apps calling premium rate numbers (with new techniques) in Google Play During last year, a lot of “made in Spain” malware was found in Google Play. It was basically malware that tried to silently subscribe the victim to premium SMS numbers. From a while...
Florence Broderick The beginning It is widely known that writing the first post is always a difficult task, but it is a compelling one. It’s the start of a new path that you...
