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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
ElevenPaths Telefónica WannaCry File Restorer: How can we recover information deleted by WannaCry? When cyberattacks occur in large organizations, it is crucial to remember where duplicate files are stored, as this information is also subject to infection by a malware virus or...
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 The Turkish behind pr0nClicker, uploads badware to Google Play for the fourth time During last week, the Turkish (maybe a gang, maybe just a person) behind the pr0nClickers malware got to avoid Google Play defenses and upload again dozens of fake apps...
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...
