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...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 12-18 February Researchers develop exploit for critical vulnerability in Magento Positive Technologies’ offensive security team has developed a Proof of Concept (PoC) for the CVE-2022-24086 CVSSv3 9.8 vulnerability, claiming that it would allow control...
Diego Samuel Espitia A practical approach to integrating MITRE’s ATT&CK and D3FEND Businesses have become aware of the need to have mechanisms in place to ensure the protection of their information and how important it is to understand their weaknesses in...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 5 – 11 February Microsoft disables macros and MSIX to prevent malware distribution Microsoft has been actively mobilising against multiple malware attacks that use some of its technologies as an entry vector. The products...
Alexandre Maravilla Digital Identity Wallets against identity theft fraud Identity theft or impersonation is a type of fraud in which criminals manage to supplant the identity of the person being deceived, based on the theft of their personal...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 29 January – 4 February Exploits that allow privilege elevation in Windows published Security researchers have made public several exploits that leverage a known elevation of privilege vulnerability that affects all versions of Windows 10. The exploits...
Paloma Recuero de los Santos Artificial Intelligence or Cognitive Intelligence? The buzz words of business (Original post in Spanish: ¿Inteligencia artificial o cognitiva?) Artificial Intelligence in the last 5 years has become the biggest buzz word with various spin offs including “Cognitive Intelligence”, “Smart Technologies”...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 22-28 January New vulnerabilities in Linux Two new vulnerabilities of risk have recently been disclosed and are reportedly affecting Linux systems. If exploited, they could allow privilege escalation on the vulnerable system. CVE-2021-4034...
Martiniano Mallavibarrena Are we really shopping ” securely ” on the Internet? Once Black Friday, Singles’ Day (if you have Chinese roots or any kind of relationship to it) and Christmas are over, I’m sure the vast majority of us have...
Susana Alwasity The risks of not having controlled exposure to information (III) Finally comes the last and long-awaited post in this series on the risks of uncontrolled information overexposure. As we saw in the previous post, we know how to minimise...
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 FOCA Final Version, the ultimate FOCA You all know FOCA. Over the years, it had a great acceptation and became quite popular. Eleven Path has killed the FOCA to turn it into a professional service,...
Florence Broderick HookMe, a tool for intercepting communications with API hooking HookMe is a tool for Windows that allows to intercept system processes when calling APIs needed for network connections. The tool, still in beta, was developed by Manuel Fernández (now...
Florence Broderick How does blacklisting work in Java and how to take advantage of it (using whitelisting) Oracle has introduced the notion of whitelisting in its latest version of Java 7 update 40. That is a great step ahead (taken too late) in security for this...
Florence Broderick (re) Introducing Evil Foca (DEFCON Edition) Evil Foca was introduced in early April, as a tool to make local networks pentesters and auditors life easier. In a simple way and with a very simple interface too, it allows...
