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...
Ana Zamora Fighting Fraud: The $3.7 trillion black hole facing today’s organizations The global cost of fraud per year is approximately $3.7 trillion according to a 2014 survey, meaning that the average fraud impact per organization is estimated at around 5% of its...
AI of Things LUCA and CARTO to work together bringing location to the next frontier of Big Data The ability to derive actionable insights from analyzing Big Data is a huge component to success for any telecommunications company. Big Data is typically defined as having an inordinate...
AI of Things Big Data for Social Good: How 6 billion mobile phones are social sensors to save lives Attending One Young World as a returning ambassadorthis year as one of the 40-strong delegation was an absolute privilege. Taking part alongside young employees from hundreds of public and...
Richard Benjamins Telco Data Analytics: what’s next in Big Data for Telcos By Lora Mihova, Strategy Manager at LUCA and Richard Benjamins, Director External Positioning and Big Data for Social Good at LUCA. The European version of Telco Data Analytics Conference took place on...
AI of Things Can Big Data reshape the Outdoor Media sector? Out-of-home (OOH) adspend in the UK rose to £1 billion 2014, and is predicted to grow by 4.8% in 2016 according to a recent report. To ensure they benefit...
Richard Benjamins The 6 challenges of Big Data for Social Good Many of us are familiar with the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations for 2030 and increasingly more and more companies and organizations are contributing to their achievement. However, there...
Richard Benjamins Big Data Week 2016: Forget Big Data, Artificial Intelligence is the new kid on the block Yesterday, the LUCA team attended the first day of Big Data Week. BDW is a global community that organizes an annual event focusing on the social, political, and technological...
Richard Benjamins From Data Exhaust to Data-Driven: How CEOs face Big Data Since Big Data became a buzzword in the board room of companies some years ago (thanks to McKinsey’s report “Big Data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity”), many...
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…...
