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Today is the European Data Protection Day. A date established by the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the Data Protection authorities of the member states of the European Union to rai...

When there are only a few days left to say goodbye to this unusual year, we have compiled the Top 5 of the most read articles in our blog in 2020. As you may know, we strive to keep our readers up-...

A new side channel attack threatens Intel and AMD CPUs. It has been discovered by a group of Austrian researchers from the Graz University of Technology. They have called it PLATYPUS and it allows ...

The protection of computer networks against unauthorized access is one of the main handicaps of cybersecurity. It is essential for both system administrators of large corporations and IT managers o...

Kali Linux is a distribution based on Debian and specially designed for computer security audits. Developed by Offensive Security, it incorporates a wide catalog of tools to carry out computer fore...

During the first half of this year 2020, the security firm Trend Micro blocked 8.8 million cyber threats that took advantage of Covid-19 to infect computers. Spam through email was the main way use...

The Lockdown security module introduced in Linux 5.4 to lock certain parts of the kernel seems not to be as effective as expected. A developer has managed to skip this protection on Ubuntu 18.04 an...

The security firm Check Point warns of a significant increase in the number of cyber-attacks that take advantage of the search for information about the Covid-19 to infect more and more users. Duri...

The current health crisis, due to the expansion of Covid-19, is responsible for the rise of remote work. The Governments of the affected territories recommend it, and even impose it, and companies ...

Companies and users are increasingly aware of the need to be extremely cautious when surfing the Internet and to properly protect their connected devices. The FIDO security keys are a way to provid...

Coinciding with its 20 years of presence in Spain, the consulting firm IDC Research Spain advanced last week during its Futurescapes 2020 event its technological Predictions for this year. They con...

For the first time, a VPN provider has open sourced the source code of all its Windows, macOS, Android and iOS applications. Proton is the company that has marked this important milestone in the hi...

Microsoft is going to release a security patch through Windows Update next March which will disable certain authentication mechanisms via Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) in Active Dire...

Security is one of the most important aspects for the UDS Enterprise development team. One of the actions being carried out in this line is the complete redesign of the UDS Actor.

As every month, in this article we compile the most read posts of our blog, this time during last November. The Case Study of UDS Enterprise and the Municipality of San Martín de Porres (Peru) has ...

Linux is the safest operating system when it comes to the possibility of receiving malicious advertising campaigns. This conclusion is drawn from a study published by the security firm DEVCON, in w...

Oracle announced this week during the event OpenWorld 2019 held in San Francisco the launch of the “first and only autonomous operating system in the world”, according to the words of Larry Ellison...

The National Security Agency of the United States (NSA) warns in an advisory to all administrators and users of Windows to check that their system is updated and patched against the latest threats....

The cybersecurity company Intezer has discovered a new malware targeting Linux systems. HiddenWasp is a Trojan that allows cybercriminals to take remote control of infected machines. At the moment,...

FireEye has released an Open Source tool to automate the analysis of SWF files in Flash. It’s called FLASHMINGO and it enables analysts to triage suspicious Flash samples and investigate them furth...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of United States is committed to develop a 100% Open Source voting system to restore citizens' trust in the counting system. The objective of...