Paloma Recuero de los Santos IoT and Big Data: What’s the link? The digital revolution has changed our lives. To begin with, technological advances were linked to the worlds of scientific research, industrial innovation, the space race, defence, health, private companies...
LUCA How Big Data helped Stuttgart improve commutes and tackle Climate Change Here at LUCA, we are passionate about harnessing the power of data to tackle problems. Whether the problem is a global threat like climate change or a personal issue...
Luis Simón Gómez Semeleder IoT Activation: the IoT Program for Startups Telefónica launches the IoT Activation program to help startups develop their Internet of Things products. Thanks to IoT Activation, companies will have access to Telefónica’s exclusive services and tools to...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Make your holidays run smoothly with IoT The arrival of summer holidays allows us to visit our favorite destinations, but who isn´t worried about losing their suitcase when travelling? Luckily, IoT help us to have everything...
Alfonso de la Rocha Gómez-Arevalillo The truth behind Libra, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency It’s been almost a week since Facebook’s public release of Libra Blockchain, a decentralized programmable database promoted by Facebook to support a low-volatility cryptocurrency. Opiniated rivers of ink have...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: Google’s project to fight election attacks On the night of the primary elections in May, the residents from the county Knox, Tennessee, did not know who had won for about an hour. They did not...
ElevenPaths We Announce Our Digital Operation Centers, Where All Our Digital Services Are Focused The Telefónica Cybersecurity Unit holds its VII Security Innovation Day, under the motto ‘Guards for Digital Lives.’With speakers such as Chema Alonso, Pedro Pablo Pérez, Julia Perea and Ester...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Google report 17% of Microsoft vulnerabilities. Microsoft and Qihoo, 10% Who finds more vulnerabilities in Microsoft products? What percentage of vulnerabilities are discovered by Microsoft, other companies or vulnerability brokers? How many flaws have unknown discoverers? Over this report we have analyzed...
Sergio De Los Santos Facebook signed one of its apps with a private key shared with other Google Play apps since 2015 Facebook Basics is a Facebook app aimed at countries with poor connectivity, where a free access service to WhatsApp and Facebook is provided. It has been discovered that the Android version...
ElevenPaths New tool: Masked Extension Control (MEC), don’t trust Windows extensions Windows relies too much on extensions to choose the program that must process a file. For instance, any .doc file will be opened by Word, regardless of its “magic...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Uncovering APTualizator: the APT that patches Windows By the end of June 2019, we assisted to an incident were a high number of computers had started to reboot abnormally. In parallel, Kaspersky detected a file called swaqp.exe, which apparently...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityReport19H1: 45,000 apps removed from Google Play, 2% of them detected by antiviruses Currently, there are a number of reports addressing trends and summaries on security. However, at ElevenPaths we want to make a difference. Our Innovation and Labs team has just...
Sergio De Los Santos A government is known by the Apple data it requests Sometimes, governments need to be underpinned by huge corporations to carry out their work. When a threat depends on knowing the identity or gaining access to a potential attacker...
ElevenPaths Your feelings influence your perception of risk and benefit more than you might think Security is both a feeling and a reality —Bruce Schneier Daniel Gardner starts his book The Science of Fear with the shocking history of US September 11 attacks: And so in...
ElevenPaths Why you are late delivering all your projects and what you can do to address it Anyone who causes harm by forecasting should be treated as either a fool or a liar. Some forecasters cause more damage to society than criminals. —Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan, 2007 In 1957,...
ElevenPaths How to forecast the future and reduce uncertainty thanks to Bayesian inference (II) In the first part of this article we explained how Bayesian inference works. According to Norman Fenton, author of Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks: Bayes’ theorem is...
Rocío Muñoz Paul How Telefonica has implemented the first automatized SDN network Much research and case studies have been put into the latest technologies as applied to telecommunications networks for automation and operational efficiency purposes aimed at the needs of future 5G networks and...
Olivia Brookhouse How to learn Python: the most important skill for employers The application of Artificial Intelligence to optimize Big Data and provide Data Insights is becoming a necessity to all business processes, therefore programmers are in hot demand. Designing effective...
LUCA The use of AI and Machine Learning in the beer industry Artificial Intelligence has made its way into so many crucial aspects of our lives whether it be in medical care, transport, or even catering, but there are also so...
LUCA How the fashion industry is applying Big Data and AI Season after season, retailers come up with loads of new products ready to hit shelves worldwide. While at one time, designers had no idea what their customers would like...
LUCA Machine Learning to analyze League of Legends Written by David Heras and Paula Montero, LUCA Interns, and Javier Carro Data Scientist at LUCA When League of Legends was released in 2009, few people could have predicted what...
