Roberto García Esteban Metacloud: a cloud of clouds The digitalisation of society is rapidly advancing, mainly driven by the development of the internet and Cloud technology. Companies are rushing to adopt these new technologies in pursuit of...
Nacho Palou Key ingredients for today’s Smart Cities The term Smart City used to refer to “cities of the future”, but Smart Cities are increasingly turning the present. Thanks to the use of digital solutions such as...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 21 January – 3 February LockBit Green: new LockBit variant Researchers at vx-underground have recently detected that a new ransomware variant, called LockBit Green, is being used by the LockBit ransomware handlers. This new variant...
Martiniano Mallavibarrena Cybersecurity in films: myth vs. reality with 10 examples The multiple aspects of cybersecurity (attacks, investigations, defence, disloyal employees, negligence, etc.) have been part of the plot of countless movies and TV series for years. In today’s society,...
Nacho Palou Smart urban lighting: business opportunities and benefits for municipalities and citizens Smart street lighting is one of the pillars of smart cities. In fact, it is one of the best examples of what the term Smart City means: the application...
Daniel Pous Montardit Resilience, key to Cloud-Native systems In the first post of the Cloud-Native series, What is a Cloud-Native Application?, or what it means that my software is Cloud Native, we presented resilience as one of...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 21 – 27 January Killnet targeting victims in Spain This week, the hacktivist group Killnet announced a campaign of attacks against Germany, leading to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that rendered the websites...
Marta Nieto Gómez-Elegido «We are moving towards genderless professions», María Martínez It’s a cold morning in Madrid and María Martínez Martín, Head of the Threats Intelligence Operations team at Telefónica Tech, welcomes us at the Telefónica building. Wearing a blue blazer...
Gonzalo Fernández Rodríguez What is a Cloud-Native Application? The term Cloud Native is something that goes beyond moving applications on-premises, i.e. hosted directly in a data centre to an infrastructure from a Cloud provider, whether public or...
Nacho Palou Augmented Humanity, a concept popularized by a former CEO of Google, is more relevant than ever A few years ago, Google’s then CEO Eric Schmidt popularised the concept of “augmented humanity”. This term refers to the ability of technology to “enhance human capabilities” to make...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 14 – 20 January Critical vulnerabilities in Netcomm and TP-Link routers Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Netcomm and TP-Link routers. On the one hand, the flaws, identified asCVE-2022-4873 and CVE-2022-4874, are a case of buffer...
Nacho Palou How to start programming in Artificial Intelligence: languages, tools and recommendations There is a very close relationship between Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI): Big Data is about capturing, processing and analysing large amounts of data. When this data is...
Jorge Rubio Consequences of a cyber-attack in industrial environments Industrial environments can be found in any type of sector we can imagine, whether in water treatment, transport, pharmaceutical, machinery manufacturing, electrical, food or automotive companies, among others. The differences...
Alberto García García-Castro Incentives in business blockchain networks: a new approach It has always been a fundamental part of the technology to use incentives that reward collaboration and good practices among participants in a blockchain network. So much so that...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 7 – 13 January Microsoft fixes 98 vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday Microsoft has published its security bulletin for the month of January, in which it fixes a total of 98 vulnerabilities. Among these, an...
Daniel Pous Montardit Observability: what it is and what it offers What is observability? The term “observability” comes from Rudolf Kalman’s control theory and refers to the ability to infer the internal state of a system based on its external outputs....
Nacho Palou Blockchain for increasing security in the buying and selling of vehicles Digital technologies such as connectivity, Internet of Things or Artificial Intelligence are becoming increasingly common in vehicles. For example, in the form of digital assistants, mobility services, or advanced...
Gonzalo Fernández Rodríguez What is a Cloud-Native Application? The term Cloud Native is something that goes beyond moving applications on-premises, i.e. hosted directly in a data centre to an infrastructure from a Cloud provider, whether public or...
Alberto García García-Castro Incentives in business blockchain networks: a new approach It has always been a fundamental part of the technology to use incentives that reward collaboration and good practices among participants in a blockchain network. So much so that...
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
Roberto García Esteban Cloud market trends until 2025 All of us who work in Cloud services are aware that this market is still in a phase of accelerated growth and that more and more companies are taking...
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?
