AI of Things LUCA to power data-driven decisions in Brazil’s tourism sector Brazil’s tourism industry had a huge boost in 2016 with more than half a million tourists descending upon Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics – making it a record year with...
AI of Things Movistar Team: the best cyclists, the best behind the scenes team, the best strategy and Big Data By Mikel Zabala, PhD (Sport Scientist, Lecturer at Granada University and member of the team of trainers for the Movistar Team), Javier Carro (Data Scientest en LUCA), y Pedro...
AI of Things What does Big Data tell us about the way people move around Brazil’s favelas? Brazil has seen its fair share of the world’s media spotlight in the past year, with positive storylines around the success of the Rio Olympics, as well as more...
AI of Things Aim for 2017: Change the World Have you already made your New Year’s resolutions? How would you feel if one of those was to change the world? Three nights ago millions of people had 12 grapes...
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 Where are people from Madrid going during the upcoming December holidays? During the early December bank holiday many of us take the opportunity to relax, discover new places or return to our countries of origin. This time, as a further...
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...
Ana Zamora Big Data and Tourism: How this Girona Festival became Data-Driven Every year, from the 9th to the 17th of May, Girona celebrates the “Temps de Flors”, one of the most popular flower festivals in Europe. For ten days, the...
AI of Things International call traffic may tell you more than first thought This post debates the value of international phone calls in understanding society. Telefónica has a wide global infrastructure of networks which can be used by other service providers to carry...
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...
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…...
