AI of Things The 5 most in-demand Big Data profiles in 2017 With Big Data falling off the Gartner Emerging Technology Hype Cycle this year, and Artificial Intelligence now hogging the limelight, we decided to take a look at the most...
Ana Zamora Big Data and Tourism: How this Girona Festival became Data-Driven Every year, from the 9th to the 17th of May, Girona celebrates the “Temps de Flors”, one of the most popular flower festivals in Europe. For ten days, the...
AI of Things International call traffic may tell you more than first thought This post debates the value of international phone calls in understanding society. Telefónica has a wide global infrastructure of networks which can be used by other service providers to carry...
Richard Benjamins Artificial Intelligence: What even is that? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the hottest topic out there at the moment, and often it is merely associated with chatbots such as Siri or other cognitive programs such as...
Florence Broderick Telefónica Mannequin Challenge Today in the office we decided to do our very own Mannequin Challenge, bringing together employees from all over Telefónica. This viral internet craze has even frozen the internet...
AI of Things Can Mobile Data combat Climate Change in Germany? One of our favourite topics here at LUCA is using Big Data for Social Good, to measure our progress on Sustainable Development Goals. Three of the 17 goals are...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Industry 4.0 is much more than Smart Factories We should start by explaining what Industrial IoT (IIoT) – also known as Industry 4.0 – is. It is undoubtedly as much a revolution as the three previous revolutions...
AI of Things Commuter Traffic: Can Big Data solve the problem? When we sit in our daily traffic jams, many of us may think: Where do the other commuters come from? Where are they on their way to? Are we...
Florence Broderick Big Dating: Could AI be the real matchmaker on Tinder? Online dating platforms such as Tinder, Happn and Hinge are seeing exponential growth, slowly sliding on to the home screens of smartphone users all over the world. Last week...
Ana Zamora LUCA at Big Data Spain 2016: Our Full Roundup Over the past 2 days our LUCA team have been in full force at the Big Data Spain 2016 event, which was held this year in Kinepolis in the...
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 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 HookMe, a tool for intercepting communications with API hooking HookMe is a tool for Windows that allows to intercept system processes when calling APIs needed for network connections. The tool, still in beta, was developed by Manuel Fernández (now...
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 Quick and dirty shellcode to binary python script https://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/loader/run_prettify.js If you work with exploits and shellcode, you already know what shellcode is and how to deal with it. Sometimes it comes with exploits in C, Perl, Python…...
