Oracle’s delay in dropping support for the hash seems strange, but it’s finally named the day Source: Sophos
The printer you have in your office may be less innocent than you thought. Some experts have already shown that they can even become a steganographic tool, the art, well-known in computer security, of hiding information from prying eyes. A few years ago, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization that defends civil liberties on the […]
Many businesses are actively encouraging their employees to use social media at work, hoping that they will become “brand advocates”, talking about the company’s products and services. Employers also hope that their worker’s accounts will help to give the company a “human” face. But as good as these intentions are, you should carefully consider whether […]
Last year is proof that stories about Kim Kardashian and Pikotaro’s PPAP song were not the only things able to break the internet, 2016 was a year full of news about data breaches, stolen sensitive information, hackers extortion and DDoS attacks that in some cases had a significant impact on the lives of many Americans. […]
This February, from the 13th to the 17th, the XXII Edition of the RSA Conference, the largest event of cyber security in the world, will be held at the San Francisco Moscone Center. Major companies, suppliers and cybersecurity gurus will gather to find solutions to their business concerns and discuss industry trends — an incomparable […]
The next revolution in computer science already has a name: quantum computing. Computers capable of working with the superposition of ones and zeros (using qubits, which can take both values, unlike bits, which take one or the other) are still a laboratory animal, but research is increasingly approaching the dream of developing a machine with […]
This post is the result of collaboration between Elevenpaths (Telefónica Cyber Security Unit) and Kaspersky Lab. Both companies have used their own expertise, researchers and tools, such as Tacyt (an innovative tool for the monitoring and analysis of mobile threats) and GReAT’s internal tools and resources. Big Brother and Google Play Fraudulent apps trying to […]
In this week’s Tales From Ransomware, we take a look at a ransomware that isn’t really ransomware. Nor even malware. But it can hijack your server anyway. A few days ago we saw a typical Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) attack, which lead us to believe that it was a similar attack to the one we […]
With everything that’s gone down in 2016 it’s easy to forget Tim Cook’s and Apple’s battle with the FBI over data encryption laws. Apple took a strong stance though, and other tech giants followed suite leading to a victory of sorts for (the little guy in) online privacy. In this era of web exposure, it […]
Machine learning methods are often presented by developers of security solutions as a silver bullet, or a magic catch-all technology that will protect users from a huge range of threats. But just how justified are these claims? Unless explanations are provided as to where and how exactly these technologies are used, these assertions appear to […]
