AI of Things Can Mobile Data combat Climate Change in Germany? One of our favourite topics here at LUCA is using Big Data for Social Good, to measure our progress on Sustainable Development Goals. Three of the 17 goals are...
AI of Things Commuter Traffic: Can Big Data solve the problem? When we sit in our daily traffic jams, many of us may think: Where do the other commuters come from? Where are they on their way to? Are we...
Florence Broderick Big Dating: Could AI be the real matchmaker on Tinder? Online dating platforms such as Tinder, Happn and Hinge are seeing exponential growth, slowly sliding on to the home screens of smartphone users all over the world. Last week...
Ana Zamora LUCA at Big Data Spain 2016: Our Full Roundup Over the past 2 days our LUCA team have been in full force at the Big Data Spain 2016 event, which was held this year in Kinepolis in the...
Richard Benjamins Open Data and Business – a paradox? While Open Data has a wide range of definitions, Wikipedia provides one of the most commonly accepted: “Open Data is the idea that some data should be freely available...
Florence Broderick The Data Transparency Lab Conference 2016 kicks off tomorrow By Ramon Sangüesa, Data Transparency Lab coordinator. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.3px Tahoma; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} This week the 2016 edition of the Data Transparency Lab conference...
AI of Things Big Data Spain 2016: Your chance to join the LUCA team? This week on the 17th and 18th of November, Big Data Spain 2016 will be taking place bringing together over 1000 Big Data experts from all over the world...
AI of Things Chatbots? New? You haven’t met ELIZA By Dr Richard Benjamins, VP for External Positioning and Big Data for Social Good at LUCA. Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic at the moment. We definitely live in the...
Richard Benjamins Big Data and Elections: We shine a light on Trump and Clinton Twitter is widely used as a tool to understand and predict phenomena in the real world. Today on our blog, we have been using Twitter to understand the US Presidential...
AI of Things Can Big Data and IOT prevent motorcycle crashes? Most of us are familiar with the dangers involved in driving motorbikes, with motorcyclists being 27 times more likely than passenger car occupants to die in a crash per...
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…...
