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...
Innovation Marketing Team Partnerships that escalate entrepreneurship and innovate the corporation: Ten Wayra startups that do business with Vivo With 10 years of operations, Wayra has transformed the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Brazil and worldwide. Since its launch in 2011, when it was created to support entrepreneurship, Wayra has...
Florence Broderick Quick and dirty script in Powershell to check certificate fingerprints Malware is using signed binaries to attack Windows systems. Malware needs it to get into the roots of the operative system. So attackers steal or create their own certificates....
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 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 Showing certificate chain without validating with Windows "certificate store" (C#) Java has its own independent certificate store. If you wish to view natively in Windows a certificate extracted from an APK or JAR file Windows may not find the...
