<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: altharaz</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=altharaz</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:39:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=altharaz" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I built an Automated Pigeon Deterrent Water Turret.<p>Everything has been built with Claude, even the bill of materials for the hardware.<p>The project is open source and now protects my raspberries. You can see a demo here: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1u03rja/automated_pigeon_deterrent_water_turret_built/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1u03rja/automated...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:46:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533141</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533141</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "Ion engines could take us to the solar gravitational lens in less than 13 years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is a very high quality video about how Solar Gravitational Lens could be used to map exoplanets, and full explanations about the images reconstruction and engineering challenges: <a href="https://youtu.be/NQFqDKRAROI" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/NQFqDKRAROI</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 22:41:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41958256</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41958256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41958256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Generate Mitre ATT&CK from a List of CVE]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>CVE2CAPEC is a free tool to generate a MITRE ATT&CK Navigator from a list of CVE.<p>MITRE ATT&CK is a framework that you can use to see the links between multiple security findings (here vulnerabilities from the CVE database). MITRE ATT&CK represents the path an attacker could use on your information system, aka "KillChain".<p>CVE2CAPEC is built on an open source repo <a href="https://github.com/Galeax/CVE2CAPEC/">https://github.com/Galeax/CVE2CAPEC/</a> with JSON data about CVE, CWE, CAPEC, and MITRE ATTACK Techniques, that you can use for your own projects as well.<p>Feel free to play with it and to open any issue if your need other features!</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41943661">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41943661</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 09:40:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://galeax.github.io/CVE2CAPEC/</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41943661</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41943661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "A closer look at CVSS scores"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very great article.<p>At the moment IMHO the major issue comes from that people use only the Basic Score of the CVSS 3.1, issued by the NVD.<p>Indeed, if you also take the Temporal Score (with CTI feeds for example), and if you add the Environmental Score, then you can have very good results to help prioritizing the vulnerabilities on your assets and reflect the real threat.<p>I would also like, however, to see the CVSS4 with a "cost to patch" component: in OT environments, CISO like to use the SSVC because it’s the easiest way to say "wait" instead of "patch now". But since SSVC is not really recognized by all auditors, it generates conflicts.
Bringing a component in the CVSS to reflect the cost of remediation on very complex devices, where deploying a KB requires to stop a full factory, could help getting the same results (aka "don’t patch now and wait") but with a more respected scoring system.<p>From my perspective, that’s the only missing component for a good CVSS system :).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:17:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31814455</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31814455</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31814455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "Gitlab – Static passwords set during OmniAuth-based registration (CVE-2022-1162)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The hardcoded password seems to be:<p>Gitlab::Password.test_default(21)
=> "123qweQWE!@#000000000"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:05:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30876409</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30876409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30876409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gitlab – Static passwords set during OmniAuth-based registration (CVE-2022-1162)]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/03/31/critical-security-release-gitlab-14-9-2-released/">https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/03/31/critical-security-release-gitlab-14-9-2-released/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30872415">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30872415</a></p>
<p>Points: 66</p>
<p># Comments: 22</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2022 21:29:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/03/31/critical-security-release-gitlab-14-9-2-released/</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30872415</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30872415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "The YC Winter 2022 Batch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://sievedata.com" rel="nofollow">https://sievedata.com</a> seems very promising, a search engine for videos, with specific tags, sounds like a very good idea.<p>I'd like the same for all my photos and videos: that would be so much easier to find specific pictures by keywords</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2022 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30844284</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30844284</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30844284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "HiveNightmare a.k.a. SeriousSAM – anybody can read the registry in Windows 10"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TL;DR:<p>Some Windows configuration have bad permissions on their SAM database.
If a standard user has access to shadow copies (VSS), this can lead to privilege escalation.<p>Microsoft recommends to [1]:<p>1) Restrict access to the contents of %windir%\system32\config:
- Command Prompt (Run as administrator): icacls %windir%\system32\config*.* /inheritance:e
- Windows PowerShell (Run as administrator): icacls $env:windir\system32\config*.* /inheritance:e<p>2) Delete Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) shadow copies:
- Delete any System Restore points and Shadow volumes that existed prior to restricting access to %windir%\system32\config.
- Create a new System Restore point (if desired).<p>--<p>Also, please note that some authorities seem to adress this subject carefully. The French national cybersecurity agency (ANSSI) has for instance published a News bulletin [2] but no "real" Security bulletin of this vulnerability [3].<p>In its News bulletin, the ANSSI specifies that it also affects Windows Vista RTM :).<p>However, the ANSSI also says that deleting VSS entries (step 2 of Microsoft recommendations) "must be decided after evaluating the advantages and disadvantages with regard to the risks, in particular because there may be other possibilities for privilege escalation depending on the level of security of your information system."<p>[1] <a href="https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-36934" rel="nofollow">https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-20...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/actualite/CERTFR-2021-ACT-031/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/actualite/CERTFR-2021-ACT-031/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/alerte/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/alerte/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2021 12:54:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27940513</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27940513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27940513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "Unity Software Inc S-1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unity has also a lot of potential in the Cybersecurity industry, for people that wants to train themselves on Industrial Systems.<p>The only thing that makes industrial Cybersecurity really hard for students is the industrial systems laboratory requirements.<p>With Unity, some people are trying to build completely virtual pentest labs on industrial systems, such as GRFICS (<a href="https://github.com/Fortiphyd/GRFICSv2" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Fortiphyd/GRFICSv2</a>).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2020 18:24:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24263716</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24263716</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24263716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "Show HN: I made a macOS app to let me draw on the screen while on video calls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great app, I just bought it and I will try it on the next WebEx conference calls :).<p>Some remarks:<p>- the "Highlight cursor at app launch" has a "Start sdf sdfsdf" tooltip<p>- I can not change the keyboard shortcuts (when I click on the button to configure them, nothing happens)<p>- the default keyboard shortcut "Control + Option + A" presented in the menu does not work on French keyboards and requires instead to push "Control + Option + Q", which looks like a AZERTY / QWERTY configuration issue?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 08:40:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22943467</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22943467</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22943467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "Ad.watch – Breaking open Facebook's machine of political persuasion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From my understanding, it's a dataviz of Facebook ads linked to politics.<p>For instance, if we select "Browse per country" and then "France", you can see political ads, with their political party, their content, their settings, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2019 13:08:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21091504</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21091504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21091504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
=> A lot of wisdom on how to lead and live<p>On The Shortness of Life, Seneca
=> An essay about how to handle life and how to see what is really important<p>On War, Clausewitz
=> An important essay about strategy and war, politics and management<p>The Prince, Machiavelli
=> A little bit cynical but quite realistic about the nature of power in the hands of humans<p>Thirty-Six Stratagems, multiple authors
=> A list of strategies that can be used in any situation, whether when winning or losing</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:49:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20917240</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20917240</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20917240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Richelieu, list of the most common French passwords]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/tarraschk/richelieu">https://github.com/tarraschk/richelieu</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20329682">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20329682</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2019 20:58:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/tarraschk/richelieu</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20329682</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20329682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "Ask HN: How do I make sure my non-technical parents are safe online?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From my experience, the password manager is just another issue to solve for this kind of people: it’s another software to use and these users do not like to use software.<p>As a result, paper is sort of natural for them, and the only way I found to impeach them from writing down their passwords is to make them use passphrases instead of passwords.<p>They do remember the passphrases they typed in, however the issue is that some websites still refuse passphrases because they are too long :(.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2019 05:49:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20019742</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20019742</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20019742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "Ask HN: How do I make sure my non-technical parents are safe online?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My recipe is AdBlocks + automated updates enabled + firewall enabled + desktop shortcut for web browser + regular antimalware check.<p>Regarding phishing, I set them up with a GMail account and their filter is quite good against this.<p>So far, not anything bad happened, some minor malware were installed through malicious web browser extensions, but no financial damage or identity theft.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2019 21:54:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20017798</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20017798</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20017798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "Security for Elasticsearch is now free"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it also opensource? Or just free?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2019 10:29:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19968906</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19968906</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19968906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "$50M CTF from Hackerone – Writeup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Blind-querying is a common technique and is even tested by tools such as SQLMap (<a href="https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap/wiki/Usage#sql-injection-techniques-to-test-for" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap/wiki/Usage#sql-injec...</a>).<p>You have full details on what these requests look like here: <a href="https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Blind_SQL_Injection" rel="nofollow">https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Blind_SQL_Injection</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2019 10:05:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19510743</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19510743</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19510743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "Launch HN: Latchel (YC W19) – Rental Property Maintenance as a Service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In France, this kind of work is proposed by a lot of real estate agencies.
Real estate agencies can even collect the rent for you and “guarantee” you the amount you will get each month. This point is very important as it is a nightmare to evict a bad tenant.<p>Do you have the same issues in the US? If so, do you plan to manage the rent payment as well?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2019 19:07:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19371813</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19371813</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19371813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "What Was the Happiest Day on the Internet This Decade?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would have said “the day Pokémon Go had been released”.<p>I remember people from different generations walking in the streets, talking and laughing together without knowing each other. Something very rare for Paris :).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:26:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19319548</link><dc:creator>altharaz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19319548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19319548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by altharaz in "Solving My Email Problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From my experience, it seems that the daily digest is not enough :). And they still seem to blacklist WebEx invitations, which is really weird as it is definitely a "standard" in web-conferences.</p>
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