Paloma Recuero de los Santos IoT and Big Data: What’s the link? The digital revolution has changed our lives. To begin with, technological advances were linked to the worlds of scientific research, industrial innovation, the space race, defence, health, private companies...
LUCA How Big Data helped Stuttgart improve commutes and tackle Climate Change Here at LUCA, we are passionate about harnessing the power of data to tackle problems. Whether the problem is a global threat like climate change or a personal issue...
Luis Simón Gómez Semeleder IoT Activation: the IoT Program for Startups Telefónica launches the IoT Activation program to help startups develop their Internet of Things products. Thanks to IoT Activation, companies will have access to Telefónica’s exclusive services and tools to...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Make your holidays run smoothly with IoT The arrival of summer holidays allows us to visit our favorite destinations, but who isn´t worried about losing their suitcase when travelling? Luckily, IoT help us to have everything...
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...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: Google’s project to fight election attacks On the night of the primary elections in May, the residents from the county Knox, Tennessee, did not know who had won for about an hour. They did not...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Google report 17% of Microsoft vulnerabilities. Microsoft and Qihoo, 10% Who finds more vulnerabilities in Microsoft products? What percentage of vulnerabilities are discovered by Microsoft, other companies or vulnerability brokers? How many flaws have unknown discoverers? Over this report we have analyzed...
Sergio De Los Santos Facebook signed one of its apps with a private key shared with other Google Play apps since 2015 Facebook Basics is a Facebook app aimed at countries with poor connectivity, where a free access service to WhatsApp and Facebook is provided. It has been discovered that the Android version...
Sergio De Los Santos The attack against OpenPGP infrastructure: consequences of a SOB’s actions What is happening with the attack against OpenPGP infrastructure constitutes a disaster, according to the affected people who maintain the protocol. Robert J. Hansen, who communicated the incident, has...
ElevenPaths How the “antimalware” XProtect for MacOS works and why it detects poorly and badly Recently, MacOS included a signature in its integrated antivirus, intended to detect a binary for Windows; but, does this detection make sense? We could think it does, as a...
ElevenPaths New research: Docless Vietnam APT. A very interesting malware against Vietnam Government We have detected a malware sent to some email accounts belonging to a Vietnam government domain. This email is written in Vietnamese and is dated March 13th, 2019. It seems to...
ElevenPaths The base rate fallacy or why antiviruses, antispam filters and detection probes work worse than what is actually promised Before starting your workday, while your savoring your morning coffee, you open your favorite cybersecurity newsletter and an advertisement on a new Intrusion Detection System catches your attention: THIS IDS...
ElevenPaths Don’t confuse the frequency of an incident with the ease you remember it Imagine that there have been a few robberies in two parks of your town that have got all the attention for days. This afternoon you would like to go...
ElevenPaths The hugest collection of usernames and passwords has been filtered…or not (II) Over the last entry we focused on analyzing the content of these files from a critical point of view, this is: on clarifying that when a massive leak freeing...
ElevenPaths The hugest collection of usernames and passwords has been filtered…or not (I) Sometimes, someone frees by mistake (or not) an enormous set of text files with millions of passwords inside. An almost endless list of e-mail accounts with their passwords or...
ElevenPaths Detected an extension in Chrome Web Store, active from February, that steals credit cards We have detected an extension for Google Chrome, still active, that steals data from web site forms visited by the victims. This extension, which is still available on Chrome...
Rocío Muñoz Paul How Telefonica has implemented the first automatized SDN network Much research and case studies have been put into the latest technologies as applied to telecommunications networks for automation and operational efficiency purposes aimed at the needs of future 5G networks and...
Olivia Brookhouse How to learn Python: the most important skill for employers The application of Artificial Intelligence to optimize Big Data and provide Data Insights is becoming a necessity to all business processes, therefore programmers are in hot demand. Designing effective...
LUCA The use of AI and Machine Learning in the beer industry Artificial Intelligence has made its way into so many crucial aspects of our lives whether it be in medical care, transport, or even catering, but there are also so...
LUCA How the fashion industry is applying Big Data and AI Season after season, retailers come up with loads of new products ready to hit shelves worldwide. While at one time, designers had no idea what their customers would like...
LUCA Machine Learning to analyze League of Legends Written by David Heras and Paula Montero, LUCA Interns, and Javier Carro Data Scientist at LUCA When League of Legends was released in 2009, few people could have predicted what...
