Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 27 May – 2 June Backdoor discovered in hundreds of Gigabyte motherboards Cybersecurity researchers at Eclypsium discovered a secret backdoor in the firmware of hundreds of Gigabyte motherboard models, a well-known Taiwanese manufacturer. Every time...
David García Will Rust save the world? (II) We saw in the previous article the problems of manual memory management, but also the pitfalls of automatic memory management in languages like Java. But what if there was...
Sergio de los Santos Four cyber security milestones that shaped the future of malware A journey through the 15 years Microsoft has spent consolidating a strategy that has impacted cybersecurity globally
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 15 – 19 May Vulnerabilities in cloud platforms Otorio’s team of researchers found 11 vulnerabilities affecting different cloud management platform providers. Sierra Wireless, Teltonika Networks and InHand Networks are the affected companies. The security flaws...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 6 – 12 May Security updates vulnerabilities in Fortinet products Fortinet has announced a set of security updates that fix up to a total of 9 vulnerabilities, 2 of which are considered high severity...
Sergio de los Santos Pay When You Get Infected by Ransomware? Many Shades of Grey The Internet is full of articles explaining why ransomware should not be paid. And they are probably right, but if you don’t make a difference between the type of ransomware and...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 29 April – 5 May Critical vulnerability in Zyxel firewalls Network equipment manufacturer Zyxel has released security patches for a critical vulnerability affecting its firewalls. The vulnerability, which was discovered and reported by the TRAPA...
David García Will Rust save the world? (I) How Rust, the security-focused open source programming language, improves the outlook for memory error-based vulnerabilities
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 22 – 28 April SolarWinds fixes high severity vulnerabilities In its latest security update, SolarWinds has fixed a total of 2 high-severity vulnerabilities, which could lead to command execution and privilege escalation. The more...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 15 – 21 April Google fixes two new actively exploited 0-day vulnerabilities Google has issued new security advisories on the identification of 0-day vulnerabilities affecting the Chrome browser that are being actively exploited. The...
Olivia Brookhouse Can Artificial Intelligence understand emotions? When John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded Artificial Intelligence in 1956, they were amazed how a machine could perform incredibly difficult puzzles quicker than humans. However, it turns out...
Jorge Rubio Artificial Intelligence applied to industrial Cyber Security (OT) Cyber Security in industrial or OT (Operational Technology) environments is crucial to protect critical infrastructures such as energy, transport and communication and has become an increasing concern as they...
Miryam Artigas Using Midjourney to create social media content Any sentence containing the word ‘dinosaur’ is worthy of attention. Admit it, it happens to you too. And if not, I’ll tell you why we’re talking about dinosaurs in a...
New Markets Team Human Factors in Cybersecurity: Protect Yourself Download the last report from Telefónica Tech Cyber & Cloud New Markets Team aimed at fighting disinformation and raising awareness about Cybersecurity
Javier Coronado Blazquez Endless worlds, realistic worlds: procedural generation and artificial intelligence in video games The video game No Man's Sky creates entirely visitable and different galaxies and planets at full-scale using a simple algorithm. How does it do it?