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...
ElevenPaths Squeezing the numbers and facts of Google’s annual Android security report Last month Google published its third annual security report on Android’s security protections, aiming to send a clear message to the world about mobile malware (or Potentially Harmful Applications...
Florence Broderick Quick and dirty script in Powershell to check certificate fingerprints Malware is using signed binaries to attack Windows systems. Malware needs it to get into the roots of the operative system. So attackers steal or create their own certificates....
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 FOCA Final Version, the ultimate FOCA You all know FOCA. Over the years, it had a great acceptation and became quite popular. Eleven Path has killed the FOCA to turn it into a professional service,...
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...
