One of the procedural measures that have been introduced by Organic Law 13/2015, of October 5 (Spain), amending the Criminal Procedure Law for strengthening procedural safeguards and regulating technological research measures allows the Judicial Police The recording and recording of oral communications through the use of electronic devices and the use of technical devices for image capture, tracking and localization. The Judicial Police has all these technical tools: Tracking Devices Localization devices Image Capture Devices Voice Communication Intercept Devices Interception devices for telematic communications (eg, the possibility of identifying the IP, IMEI, device, etc.) Registration of Mass Storage Information Devices Remote logs on computer equipmentRead More →

Every year, the challenge of protecting our IT assets from growing threats and cyber attacks is growing. Once some malicious application is in our network and later can quickly move with traffic and produce a big impact in our the network. These attacks can be devastating. I created a presentation where I explain in details this topic, you can see my presentation here (in Spanish): ¿Cuáles son los peligros a los que se enfrenta su sistema informático? from Ramiro CidRead More →

Nowadays the payment fraud landscape is changing quite fast. Changing from classic schemes as bank cheque fraud, faked manual payment orders to organized crime with corporate as targets. Understanding fraud also occurs when dishonest acts are committed without personal gain but are intended to create a loss or risk of loss for another person or entity. This includes the intentional misrepresentation of financial condition. I created a presentation where I explain in details this topic, you can see my presentation here: Payment fraud from Ramiro CidRead More →

“…A computer system is no more secure than the persons responsible for its operation…” Cybersecurity, is much more than information security applied to IT assets. Serious financial damage has been caused by security breaches, but because there is no standard model for estimating the cost of an incident, the only data available is that which is made public by the organizations involved. There are a big number of different vulnerabilities in relation of the type of assets: a) Denial-of-service attack b) Backdoors c) Exploits d) Direct access attacks e) Eavesdropping f) Indirect attacks There are different type of countermeasures: 1) Security and systems design 2)Read More →