Bárbara Villuendas

March 2025

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  The New Cybercrime Tactic: Massive Automated Attacks Targeting Weekends

  The ‘Cybersecurity Trends Report 2025’ by Sofistic, Cuatroochenta’s cybersecurity division, concludes that enhanced organizational monitoring has reduced the severity of detected vulnerabilities. 

March 2024

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  Surge in phishing attacks: click-throughs and credential entries triple

  Sofistic’s ‘Cybersecurity Trends Report 2024’ confirms a surge in vulnerabilities, propelled by factors such as geopolitical instability and the rise of generative AI. Nevertheless, amidst these challenges, the report identifies a notable stabilization of critical flaws. This positive trend...

January 2024

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  Security audits: identify your organization’s vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them

  By employing hacking techniques, technical teams assess an organization’s current security posture to uncover vulnerabilities before cybercriminals exploit them. This proactive approach is a crucial component of a company’s cybersecurity strategy, complementing continuous monitoring and swift incident response efforts.

October 2023

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  FAMA and CheckingPlan open alliances in Mexico

  Cuatroochenta is hosting the Facility Management and Services Best Practices Awards in Latin America to honor the sector’s most innovative projects. These awards will set the stage for the FACMAN Fair in Mexico, the region’s most significant event in...

September 2023

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  Sofistic audit reveals 29 security flaws in decentralized finance games

  Cuatroochenta’s cybersecurity unit detects critical vulnerabilities and lack of transparency in DeFi video games, which reward with tokens and move millions of dollars every day. Based on this ethical hacking research, to which Bit2Me has contributed, a methodology has...

August 2023

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  Protecting health through cybersecurity in hospitals

  Integrating the state-of-the-art technology with artificial intelligence into a Zero Trust cybersecurity strategy is the best way to prevent, monitor and respond to cyberattacks on healthcare infrastructures.

May 2023

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  Ethical hacking: report vulnerabilities before they are detected by cybercriminals

  The team at Sofistic, Cuatroochenta’s cybersecurity unit, recently discovered five vulnerabilities in an open-source software that is utilized by healthcare centers across more than 100 countries. The goal is to identify and report possible security breaches before they are...

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  How to adopt a Zero Trust cybersecurity strategy

  The new episode of the podcast ‘Cuidado con las macros ocultas’ by Cuatroochenta focuses on the zero-trust strategy and continuous verification as the best ways to address the growing cybersecurity risk, in which ransomware joins social engineering, intermediaries, or...

January 2023

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  Data provides us with the capacity for efficiency and improvement in building management

  Facility Management experts delve into the role of technology in the management and maintenance of infrastructures at the conference “The importance of data in the management of public administration buildings,” organized by the Catalan Facility Management Association (ACFM) and...

December 2022

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  Integrate the biometry at the decentralized digital identity to learn security

  Cuatroochenta is working, together with Facephi, on a pioneering project that combines biometric technology and decentralized digital identity (SSI), based on blockchain, so that access to technological products and services becomes more secure while maintaining data integrity and privacy.

May 2022

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  My cell phone has been hacked with spy software

  The increasing use and expanded functionality of smartphones means that they have become the main gateway for cyber-attacks. The new episode of the podcast ‘Beware of hidden macros’ discusses new authentication systems, such as biometrics solutions, to strengthen the...

October 2021

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  Top 8 trends driving the digitalisation of Facility Management

  Sustainability concerns and digitalisation will shape the direction of the industry in the coming years, according to a recent report by real estate innovation platform Innomads. Technology offers strategic solutions for companies that want to reduce costs and improve...

August 2021

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  Cuatroochenta is now also heard

  The technology company launches ‘Beware of Hidden Macros’, its new branded podcast on technology for business. It will be available on all major platforms from 7 September.

July 2021

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  The foundations of digital identity on blockchaing

  One of the leading models of sovereign digital identity is Alastria ID, in which Cuatroochenta has collaborated through 4TIC. Its aim is for us to have control of our personal information, with the security guarantees provided by blockchain and...

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  Cybersecurity in the financial sector with Sofistic

  Sofistic has more than 100 clients related to the international banking sector, for which it has implemented advanced cybersecurity solutions based on artificial intelligence and automation.

January 2021

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  Differences between a record and supporting documentation

  The digitisation of records management makes it easier for any organisation, which handles a large volume of documentation, to clearly identify which types of documents should be retained.

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  What is an archive document and what characteristics does it have?

  It is estimated that 3% of the document volume of an organisation is essential and therefore, must be preserved. Technology can help identify and classify all that essential documentation for the entity’s activity.