Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 20-26 November Reacharound: possible resurgence of the triple threat Trickbot-Emotet-Ransomware Last January, an international action orchestrated by Europol and Eurojust led to the dismantling of the Emotet infrastructure, a malware widely used...
Martiniano Mallavibarrena Technology and social psychology applied to Internet consumption: The ” Black Friday” case No one will be surprised if we suggest that social networks and other large Internet platforms base their business model on advertising and that all of them, in some...
Susana Alwasity The risks of not having controlled exposure to information (III) Finally comes the last and long-awaited post in this series on the risks of uncontrolled information overexposure. As we saw in the previous post, we know how to minimise...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 13-19 November Emotet returns Security researchers from Cryptolaemus have identifed what seems to be the reappearence of the popular Emotet malware, whose infrastructure had remained inactive since January after a joint intervenion by security...
José Luis Núñez Díaz Growing impact and future potential of blockchain for telcos: A Game Changer? Could blockchain really impact on the business of communications providers? As an industry, have telcos already embraced this technology? Do they see any opportunity behind blockchain? Do blockchain and decentralized technologies...
Susana Alwasity The risks of not having controlled exposure to information (II) As promised last week in the first post of this series, this time we will talk about how to minimise the risks of our digital footprint. ¿ How to minimise...
María Teresa Nieto Galán ¿What is happening with the public Ethereum network and will it ever be scalable? From the beginning, one of the main limitations that we have found in Blockchain technology when developing solutions is scalability. This concept refers to the ability to continue offering...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 6-12 November Microsoft’s security bulletin Microsoft has published its November security bulletin in which it has fixed a total of 55 bugs in its software, including six 0-day vulnerabilities, two of which...
Sergio De Los Santos Chronicle Of the Attack on A Youtuber Who Knew About Cyber Security The news recently broke: youtubers with the largest number of followers are being targeted for extortion. The attacks are on the rise and the techniques are not new, but...
Susana Alwasity The risks of not having controlled exposure to information (I) Welcome to the digital era. This is an era in which we embrace technology, with what it offers us in almost every sphere of our lives. From carrying a...
AI of Things 5 AI uses in Photography On our blog, we enjoy sharing the applications of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in sectors that may surprise you. Previously, in “Dining with Data” we saw how customers...
AI of Things Coca-Cola’s use of AI to stay at the top of the drinks market Coca-Cola is the largest beverage company in the world serving over 1.9 billion drinks daily across its 500 brands. Being such a large conglomerate active in so many countries...
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...
Alfonso de la Rocha Gómez-Arevalillo The truth behind Libra, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency It’s been almost a week since Facebook’s public release of Libra Blockchain, a decentralized programmable database promoted by Facebook to support a low-volatility cryptocurrency. Opiniated rivers of ink have...
