LUCA Our top 5 Big Data blogs Want to keep up with the latest innovation Big Data? Who are the Artificial Intelligence gurus out there on Twitter? It’s normal to feel the struggle to keep up...
Paloma Recuero de los Santos Python for all (1): Installation of the Anaconda environment Now that we have defined the objective of this tutorial in the previous post (“Dare with the Python: an experiment for all”), we will really begin to work. We...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Programming languages in the IoT era Under each machine, every connection, any kind of interface… there is a programming language. IoT connects a myriad of devices to each other, creating a massive, complex network. But...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Say goodbye to traffic jams The hours that we lose in traffic jams in big cities would be better used in what really matters to us thanks to the Internet of Things. We are talking...
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 Foca Files Finder, our new Chrome extension to feed FOCA Our Chrome extension is really simple. It takes advantage of the Bing technology (already used by FOCA) to perform a search of documents on the domain being visited at the moment...
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 Telefónica Trend Report: The PoS Malware threat in 2015 A few weeks ago in the United Kingdom, cashless payments overtook the use of notes and coins for the first time. This is the latest demonstration that, while worldwide...
Florence Broderick "Alarmware" in Google Play: will not stop an alarm until you install another malicious app In ElevenPaths, we have spotted a few samples of downloaders in Google Play that work in a very special way. The app hides its icon and installs a service...
Florence Broderick The month of the RAT in Google Play A few days ago, Lukas Stefanko from ESET discovered a new remote administration system RAT for Android. Although there are some known RATs for Android, this malware had something...
Florence Broderick More apps in Google Play subscribing to SMS premium numbers: JSSMSers After finding the JSDialers, we should have figured it out. The attackers are using the exact same technique as in JSDialers to spread apps that subscribe the victims to...
Florence Broderick "Not today downloaders": New downloaders techniques in Google Play Downloaders are not new in Android, but lately, they are getting more and more important for attackers as a method to avoid Google Play barriers and malware detection. In...
Florence Broderick JSDialers: apps calling premium rate numbers (with new techniques) in Google Play During last year, a lot of “made in Spain” malware was found in Google Play. It was basically malware that tried to silently subscribe the victim to premium SMS numbers. From a while...
Florence Broderick Detected some "clickers" in Google Play simulating apps and games During the last days, some apps have appeared in Google Play that work like “clickers”, between them an app simulating Talking Tom (that was online for just a few...
Florence Broderick Shuabang botnet: BlackHat App Store Optimization (BlackASO) in Google Play ElevenPaths has detected malicious apps in Google Play (already removed by Google), aimed at performing Shuabang techniques, or BlackASO (Black Hat App Store Optimization). These malicious apps link fake...
Florence Broderick The weakest hand (on security) Users have much more at stake in the digital world than ever before. Arguably as much or more, even, than our employers: our personal and professional reputations, livelihood, assets,...
ElevenPaths How the “antimalware” XProtect for MacOS works and why it detects poorly and badly Recently, MacOS included a signature in its integrated antivirus, intended to detect a binary for Windows; but, does this detection make sense? We could think it does, as a...
ElevenPaths The Confirmation Bias: we seek the information that confirms our decisions, refusing their opposed evidences Imagine yourself in a lab over an experiment. You’re asked to analyze the following number sequence: 2, 4, 6 This sequence follows a rule. What do you think the rule is?...
Richard Benjamins. How to measure your data maturity? Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have become very popular these days, and many organizations have started their data journey to become more data-driven and take automated, intelligent decisions....
Richard Benjamins. How to select AI and Big Data use cases? Many organizations that start working with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) ask themselves the question: where to start? In general, there are two ways to start: 1) start...
Richard Benjamins. Artificial Intelligence vs Cognitive Computing: What’s the difference? The media hype around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cognitive Computing is unquestionable at the moment. They seem to appear everywhere on the Internet in the press, blogs, conferences and events...
