Roberto García Esteban Metacloud: a cloud of clouds The digitalisation of society is rapidly advancing, mainly driven by the development of the internet and Cloud technology. Companies are rushing to adopt these new technologies in pursuit of...
Nacho Palou Key ingredients for today’s Smart Cities The term Smart City used to refer to “cities of the future”, but Smart Cities are increasingly turning the present. Thanks to the use of digital solutions such as...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 21 January – 3 February LockBit Green: new LockBit variant Researchers at vx-underground have recently detected that a new ransomware variant, called LockBit Green, is being used by the LockBit ransomware handlers. This new variant...
Martiniano Mallavibarrena Cybersecurity in films: myth vs. reality with 10 examples The multiple aspects of cybersecurity (attacks, investigations, defence, disloyal employees, negligence, etc.) have been part of the plot of countless movies and TV series for years. In today’s society,...
Nacho Palou Smart urban lighting: business opportunities and benefits Smart street lighting is one of the pillars of smart cities. In fact, it is one of the best examples of what the term Smart City means: the application...
Daniel Pous Montardit Resilience, key to Cloud-Native systems In the first post of the Cloud-Native series, What is a Cloud-Native Application?, or what it means that my software is Cloud Native, we presented resilience as one of...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 21 – 27 January Killnet targeting victims in Spain This week, the hacktivist group Killnet announced a campaign of attacks against Germany, leading to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that rendered the websites...
Marta Nieto Gómez-Elegido «We are moving towards genderless professions», María Martínez It’s a cold morning in Madrid and María Martínez Martín, Head of the Threats Intelligence Operations team at Telefónica Tech, welcomes us at the Telefónica building. Wearing a blue blazer...
Gonzalo Fernández Rodríguez What is a Cloud-Native Application? The term Cloud Native is something that goes beyond moving applications on-premises, i.e. hosted directly in a data centre to an infrastructure from a Cloud provider, whether public or...
Nacho Palou A concept popularized by a former Google CEO is more relevant today than ever A few years ago, Google’s then CEO Eric Schmidt popularised the concept of “augmented humanity”. This term refers to the ability of technology to “enhance human capabilities” to make...
Florence Broderick Social engineering is more active than ever The fact that Social Engineering has been the easiest method used by the scammers is not new. What we are going to describe in this blog today has been...
Florence Broderick Research: On the overexposure of Amazon credentials in mobile apps The development of mobile applications that interact with common services in mobility environments such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service...
