Richard Benjamins LUCA’s first 70 days We are almost at the end of 2016, which has been a big year for the world of Big Data. One important milestone was the creation of LUCA, Telefonica’s...
AI of Things LUCA’s First White Paper: Surviving the AI Hype LUCA has published its first white paper today entitled “Surviving the AI Hype – Fundamental concepts to understand Artificial Intelligence“. Written by Dr Richard Benjamins, this piece aims to...
AI of Things Our Christmas Lip Sync It’s been a busy few months since our LUCA launch in October, but finally the time has come to have a few days rest and enjoy the festive spirit....
Beatriz Sanz Baños IoT Trends for 2017, users in the spotlight 2016 has been the year when connectivity started to change driven by LPWA technologies and Personal IoT gains traction as a scenario where users are the main players. But...
AI of Things The refugee crisis and Syrian Civil War; a humanitarian issue reflected through data When we finish the year we always look to the past to weigh up the good and the bad moments of the year (trying to make the most of...
Richard Benjamins Can machines think? Or are humans machines? This is the last in a series of three post about some fundamental notions of AI. The objective of these series of three posts is to equip readers with...
AI of Things Where are people from Madrid going during the upcoming December holidays? During the early December bank holiday many of us take the opportunity to relax, discover new places or return to our countries of origin. This time, as a further...
AI of Things Marathon Commuters: Which nationalities spend most time travelling to and from work? Just 600 cities are projected to create more than 60% of global economic growth by 2025. Our reluctance to distribute population outside of these urban powerhouses has caused city...
Richard Benjamins How “intelligent” can Artificial Intelligence get? This post is the second in a series of three posts, each of which discuss the fundamental concepts of Artificial Intelligence. In our first post we discussed AI definitions,...
AI of Things Air Quality: How can Open Data and Mobile Data provide actionable insights? Today on our blog we’ve decided to take the mobility and traffic Big Data analysis we started here a little bit further, looking at the relationship between commuting and air...
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…...
