AI of Things LUCA chooses Hortonworks from Hadoop as its platform to offer Big Data as a service for Spain As each business sector is becoming increasingly competitive, data has become a key asset to success. In order to best leverage this asset, though, businesses need to ensure that...
AI of Things LUCA Talk 5: Transforming the Tourism Industry with Dynamic Insights It is already common knowledge that tourism is one of the biggest successes for the Spanish economy. Travelers are now more informed than ever before, instantly sharing their experiences...
AI of Things Mum, when I grow up I want to be a hacker The hacker concept is most often associated with male ‘techies’ and ‘geeks’. But why is it so difficult to find female role models in the world of technology? A...
AI of Things Whatsapp is down, now what? Written by Raúl López and Luis Suárez, LUCA interns. Very few people use their mobile phones without installing Whatsapp. The application gives thousands of millions of people the possibility to...
AI of Things Big Data has even reached Las Fallas in Valencia Just a few months ago, the capital of the Valencian community hosted the biggest party of the year: Las Fallas de Valencia. Every year from the 15th until the...
AI of Things How much do London firefighters spend on saving helpless kittens? The Open Data answers Original post in Spanish by Paloma Recuerdo In this second post, a continuation of “Smart Cities: Squeezing Open Data with Power BI”, we will analyse the problem and understand the measures...
AI of Things World Health Day: Using Big Data to address depression Last week was World Health Day, sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO). This year, the day is focused on raising awareness about the prevalence of depression through the “Depression:...
Ana Zamora Hackathons are not just for developers By Glyn Povah, Head of Global Product Development at LUCA. Hackathon is derived from the English words “hack” and “marathon”, and if you Google the word “hackathon” you’ll get something...
AI of Things 5 degree programs for becoming a Data Scientist At LUCA, our Data Scientists are at the heart of what we do. Recruiting these valuable team members can be a challenge, though, because they are in such high...
AI of Things The 6 data-driven pioneers of politics Data is starting to change the way we run our world, and businesses have tended to lead the adoption and application of Big Data technology. Nevertheless, there are some...
Florence Broderick Evil FOCA is now Open Source We are really happy to announce that Evil FOCA is now Open Source. We have received lots of comments and feedback about how you are using Evil FOCA, or how...
Florence Broderick How to bypass antiXSS filter in Chrome and Safari (discovered by ElevenPaths) Modern browsers usually have an antiXSS filter, that protects users from some of the consequences of this kind of attacks. Normally, they block cross site scripting execution, so the...
Florence Broderick HookMe, a tool for intercepting communications with API hooking HookMe is a tool for Windows that allows to intercept system processes when calling APIs needed for network connections. The tool, still in beta, was developed by Manuel Fernández (now...
Florence Broderick How does blacklisting work in Java and how to take advantage of it (using whitelisting) Oracle has introduced the notion of whitelisting in its latest version of Java 7 update 40. That is a great step ahead (taken too late) in security for this...
Florence Broderick Quick and dirty shellcode to binary python script https://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/loader/run_prettify.js If you work with exploits and shellcode, you already know what shellcode is and how to deal with it. Sometimes it comes with exploits in C, Perl, Python…...
