LUCA Do not miss what happened at NID 2018: WE ARE IN Under the claim We are in, Telefónica developed the Network Innovation Day 2018 (#NID2018) on July 14th. This was the first annual innovation event of the network, which aims...
LUCA The rise of data-driven education Here at LUCA, we like to use our blog to discover and explore how Big Data can be used in parts of society that have historically been closed off...
Mirian Martinez Varas MWC 2017: The evolution of connectivity and new uses for IoT The nature of Internet of Things is the connection between devices, between platforms, between actions and between people. Connectivity is crucial in a world of growing needs, which in...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Innovating with IoT Startups create products and technological solutions that anticipate the needs of the future, helping us in the transition to the digital age. However, they need resources so that time...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Uncovering APTualizator: the APT that patches Windows By the end of June 2019, we assisted to an incident were a high number of computers had started to reboot abnormally. In parallel, Kaspersky detected a file called swaqp.exe, which apparently...
ElevenPaths The post-quantum future is around the corner and we are still not prepared Every year we have more powerful computers with a higher calculation capacity, is that fact good or bad? Think twice before giving an answer. It depends. Because if global information...
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...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityReport18H2: our new periodic report on cybersecurity Currently, there are a number of reports addressing trends and summaries on security. However, at ElevenPaths we want to make a difference. Our Innovation and Labs team has just...
ElevenPaths m33tfinder: a vulnerability on Cisco Meeting Server detected by ElevenPaths On November 7th, while we were holding our Security Innovation Day, Cisco published a security advisory with CVE-2018-15446 associated to a vulnerability on the software Cisco Meeting Server reported by our Innovation and Labs...
LUCA The best Data Science certifications Over the last 10 years, the amount of data we have generated has soared to unprecedented heights. It is said that by 2020, each person will be generating 1.7...
Santiago Morante Cendrero Warning About Normalizing Data For many machine learning algorithms, normalizing data for analysis is a must. A supervised example would be neural networks. It is known that normalizing the data being input to...
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...
Richard Benjamins Artificial Intelligence vs Cognitive Computing: What’s the difference? The media hype around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cognitive Computing is unquestionable at the moment. They seem to appear everywhere on the Internet in the press, blogs, conferences and events...
