Top 5 digital risks for travelers and how to stay safe

Traveling opens the door to unforgettable experiences, but it also brings a new set of digital risks. In our hyper-connected world, keeping your online safety and mobile security intact is just as crucial as protecting your passport or wallet—especially whether you’re on a business trip or enjoying a holiday. Below, you’ll find the five most ...

The definitive guide: How to protect your company’s reputation

A company’s reputation is one of its most valuable assets. It is built with effort, strategy, and communication, but it can falter in a matter of seconds if the information you share is not really under control. And we are not always talking about big leaks or cyber-attacks: sometimes the problem is hidden in small ...

Step by step: How do you handle the email attachment metadata

When we send an e-mail attachment, we are not always aware of all the information that could be inside. Often, we are sharing much more than we realise. Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets or presentations often contain hidden metadata: details such as the file author, company name, save path, modification dates, previous versions or even internal ...

Met: How to know what you type by measuring the magnetic and electric fields of your brain

There is still much we do not know about the brain of human beings, but the lines of research are growing every day and the results are more spectacular. Five years ago I dedicated an article to the subject of “Robo-Rats“, where the objective was to achieve control of the free will of a rat ...

Reinforce your Data Loss Prevention strategy in business environments

Keeping information secure is a constant challenge for companies. Office documents such as financial reports, contracts or presentations contain sensitive data which, if they fall into the wrong hands, can compromise corporate security and reputation. However, many data leaks do not occur because of sophisticated cyber-attacks, but because of human error, inappropriate configurations or details ...

Estego & Crypto only within reach of Deep Reasoning AI

In the previous part, in the “Guess, Guess: Is one AI robot passing a hidden message to another AI robot?” article we showed you how the Normal Mode and Library Mode of our Robot-Prisoner experiment in the “Prison Break” game worked, to see “How do we detect that robots and AI are conspiring against humans?“. ...

The four-eyes principle: How to integrate this verification process into your digital services with TU Latch

Nowadays, managing digital accounts such as bank accounts, internal systems and databases entails a great deal of responsibility. The actions taken by the administrators of these systems not only affect the company’s security as such, they can also have economic and reputational repercussions.  From modifying sensitive settings (such as changing the prices on a website) ...

How to use artificial intelligence for forensic analysis and cyber investigation of audios

Audio processing has experienced great achievements in recent years thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), especially in the field of Deep Learning and generative AI. These advances have mostly focused on the music industry, allowing sound engineers and producers to separate vocals, instruments and other components of an audio mix with great precision, or in the ...

Everything journalists and influencers should know to combat disinformation

The fight against disinformation on social media and in other areas has become a crucial challenge for journalists and influencers in recent years. The proliferation of hoaxes and fake news on Instagram and on platforms such as X (formerly Twitter) and Tiktok has created an urgent need to verify information and fact-check news. In this ...

TU Metashield: analyses, filters and treats metadata to protect information

Every file you share on the internet, from a photo to a document, may be telling more than you realise. Even that innocent meme you saved in your gallery and are waiting for the perfect moment to share it. Beyond the visible content, there is metadata: fragments of hidden information that can reveal your location, ...

Phishing in WordPress: how to prevent them from stealing your access with Unfiltered HTML

WordPress is one of the most widely used platforms for the creation of websites and blogs, but its great popularity also makes it an attractive target for cybercriminals. Among the most common attack techniques is phishing through the “Unfiltered HTML” functionality. This type of attackallows cybercriminals to inject malicious code into web pages, compromising the ...