Nacho Palou What is AI-winter and how to avoid it Are we on the verge of the next AI winter? What factors could contribute to it? Fear, restrictive legislation, or lack of progress can impact AI's future.
Nacho Palou The power of sustainable digitalization in the fight against climate change Climate change is considered the greatest challenge of our time. Its effects range from desertification and droughts to floods and rising sea levels. Some of its most visible consequences...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 27 May – 2 June Backdoor discovered in hundreds of Gigabyte motherboards Cybersecurity researchers at Eclypsium discovered a secret backdoor in the firmware of hundreds of Gigabyte motherboard models, a well-known Taiwanese manufacturer. Every time...
Nacho Palou How language puts business Cybersecurity at risk Cybersecurity is crucial for businesses and organizations of all sizes and sectors. Cyberattacks can have severe or even fatal consequences for businesses, such as data loss, operational disruptions, or...
Carlos Rebato Cryptography, a tool for protecting data shared on the network Cyber Security is nowadays an essential element in companies. However, new ways of undermining it are emerging every day. Many have asked themselves: how can companies securely store their...
Roberto García Esteban ChatGPT and Cloud Computing: A happy marriage ChatGPT (you may not know that it stands for Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) has become the talk of the town for its impressive ability to generate text that looks...
Telefónica Tech The importance of access control: is your company protected? By David Prieto and Rodrigo Rojas In an increasingly digitalized and complex world, information security is critical for businesses. As companies adopt more cloud technologies and services or allow access...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 22 – 26 May GitLab patches a critical vulnerability GitLab has addressed a critical vulnerability affecting GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) in version 16.0.0. This security flaw has been reported as...
David García Will Rust save the world? (II) We saw in the previous article the problems of manual memory management, but also the pitfalls of automatic memory management in languages like Java. But what if there was...
Olivia Brookhouse Can Artificial Intelligence understand emotions? When John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded Artificial Intelligence in 1956, they were amazed how a machine could perform incredibly difficult puzzles quicker than humans. However, it turns out...
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 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 The beginning It is widely known that writing the first post is always a difficult task, but it is a compelling one. It’s the start of a new path that you...