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:...
Richard Benjamins Are you ready to become the CDO? Applying Analytics to the CDO role As we have seen from an earlier post on CDOs, Chief Data Officers are becoming more popular. Increasingly more organizations are understanding that data is a strategic asset and...
AI of Things LUCA White Paper: Data as a Force for Good LUCA’s second white paper sees Dr Richard Benjamins looking at data as a force for good. This piece focuses on giving readers the ability to analyse the possibilities of...
AI of Things Join us for the first Big Data for Social Good in Action event Mark your calendars for Thursday, 18th May to join us for LUCA‘s first-ever Big Data for Social Good in Action meetup. Figure 1: Join us for Big Data for Social...
AI of Things New developments in fitness and health data The explosion of Big Data surrounding our daily lives is not a recent trend. Still it is continuously growing and developing new functions everyday, including the growing use of...
AI of Things Could Big Data solve the music industry’s problems? Musicians relations with their publishers and labels have always been tumultuous and it has been alleged with the amount of middle men in the industry that it can take...
AI of Things 4 companies using Big Data to address Water Scarcity Water scarcity is an increasingly serious issue. It is estimated that by 2025, 1.8 billion people will face “absolute water scarcity”. The United Nations recognized the seriousness of this...
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 4 Data Enthusiasts changing the world as we know it It is becoming increasingly apparent that NGOs and governments are creating more roles in the Data Science discipline. Using Big Data for social good is all about coming up with new...
AI of Things When Big Data meets art In this world of ours, it is normal to feel overwhelmed by the amount of information, facts and data we encounter everyday – and the quantity we are generating...
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…...
