On May 9, 2026 GiCP co-organised the third edition of the Workshop on Cryptographic Tools for Blockchains (CTB 2026), held in Rome as a satellite event of Eurocrypt 2026 — one of the flagship venues of the International
From a general point of view, we live immersed in what we call the "smart society," an ecosystem where technological infrastructure is as ubiquitous as it is invisible. Concepts that once belonged to the academic realm,
Scientific fraud and misconduct are increasingly relevant as a research topic in various areas such as scientometrics or the ethics of research. From the replication crisis to massive retractions, through fraudulent use
The Horizon Europe projects PRESERVE, SafeHorizon, and ENSEMBLE, along with the LEA Projects Cluster, are delighted to invite you to the 2nd Edition of our Joint Stakeholder Workshop: "Networking within the security rese
In this talk, Julio Gómez Ortega, cybersecurity expert and Principal Solutions Architect at Elastic, will show us how to build an analytics and intelligence platform using the Elastic stack. We will learn how to collect,
One of the biggest reasons why attackers tend to be ahead of detection teams is because of their cross-cutting vision, while the latter are more focused on specific tasks to perform. This, in the world of mathematics, is
As part of the standardization activities in GoIT, we attended to the plenary meeting of of CEN-CLC/JTC 13 ‘Cybersecurity and data protection’. As part of the Spanish standardization body, we have participated in the dis
From Thursday 07th to Saturday 10th of March, RootedCON took place on Ciudad de la Imagen, Madrid. RootedCON is one of the main cybersecurity events in Spain and, this year, around 4000 people attended the more than 100
Data production and exploitation are the very core of our economic and social reality. Our daily activity is more determined the day by the way we access cloud services through our smartphones and, the less the day, by m
In this workshop, David Arroyo analyzes the main advantages and disadvantages of blockchain technology, with special emphasis on the characteristics of its promise of decentralization of configuration and decision making
In 2022, the European Union, in an attempt to limit the spread of Russia's disinformation campaigns, banned RT and Sputnik News from broadcasting in the EU. Understanding the functioning of the Kremlin's propaganda ecosy
In this workshop, David Arroyo analyzes the main advantages and disadvantages of blockchain technology,We present a platform for the detection and management of disinformation campaigns (Misinformation Widget - MiW) and
Bayesian optimization (BO) is a class of methods with state-of-the-art performance that deal with black-box functions, where such a function is defined as having unknown gradients (hence not being able to apply classical
AI-based image generation is bounded by system parameters and the way users define prompts. Both prompt engineering and AI tuning configuration are current open research challenges and they require a significant amount o
During the last 15 years, constant-time cryptographic software has transitioned from an academic construct to a concrete security requirement for real-world libraries. From the engineering perspective, we have quality se
This last couple weeks David Arroyo, the head of our research group, delivered two workshops on the Espacio Fundación Telefónica. A multipurpose space full of expos and talks to drive knowledge forward. The first worksho
This video shows the discussion at the Cybersecurity table. Moderator: Rosalía Machín, Head of ICT Projects / Artificial Intelligence, Guardia Civil. - Juan Gónzalez Martínez, RENIC and Gradiant. - Gabriel Urrutia, Halbo
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is still a challenging problem in most research areas. Rumour propagation, clickbait detection, misinformation, fake news, and authorship attribution have become critical in communicatio
The Internet plays a key role in our model of society. The so-called GAFA technologies (Google Amazon Facebook Apple) have a central role in accessing the infrastructure and services of the Internet are the main glasses
Alongside virtual money, blockchain has become the focus of interest in the technology news in recent years. Blockchain offers a decentralized mechanism for collecting immutable traces and allows, for example, the constr
The progressive technification of our society has been accentuated in the last twenty years, making us increasingly technologically dependent and vulnerable. We have internalized office automation, smartphones and social