AI of Things Feel Free to browse: How online retailers are driving sales with sponsored data Leading online retailers are using sponsored data to remarkable effect: Consumers are spending more time in apps, browsing more frequently, and making more purchases. Before the internet, ‘browsing’ meant looking...
AI of Things A data-driven football season A game of football lasts 90 minutes, features 2 teams, each with 11 players, and it will hopefully (from a fan’s perspective) contain some goals. In recent seasons, an...
AI of Things Big Data – Driving the Future of the Automobile Industry Are we already living in the future? Take one look at the technology being used in self-driving cars and you would certainly think so. Once only an unrealistic ideology,...
AI of Things GSMA Announces new developments in BD4SG Initiative Last week, September 19th, the GSMA announced, at the United Nations General Assembly Week in New York, new developments in its Big Data for Social Good Initiative. Eduardo Navarro, President...
AI of Things Data Science – Helping consumers to save money and travel for less Have you ever purchased a train or plane ticket online? If so, you will know how hundreds of different website display different prices. Also, you will be aware that...
AI of Things LUCA Talk 7: Using Mobile Data in the Transport Sector The next webinar in our series takes place on the 3rd of October. In this LUCA Talk, you will get the opportunity to hear about how Mobile Data can...
AI of Things How did the temporary closure of Line 5 affect the users of Madrid’s Metro? The Madrid Metro is undertaking important improvements on their transport network. This year, Line 5 which links the southeast-northeast zones to the capital, is the third to display the...
AI of Things Creating smarter fire services using data science Here at LUCA, we are passionate about Big Data for Social Good, or BD4SG. In our previous post, published during the first ‘Big Data for Social Good in Action’...
AI of Things Finding the next festival headliner using Big Data The music industry is always evolving and, like many other industries, has realised that it oughtto be harnessing the power of Big Data. Historically, human efforts have beenthe driving...
AI of Things Cycling in the city? Analysing Cyclist Safety in Madrid with Excel Written by Paloma Recuerdo, original post in Spanish In this post we will see an example of how we can perform simple descriptive analytics on a set of data, without...
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…...
