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professorTuring

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About professorTuring

Cybersecurity

Recent public activity

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    Así HN: GenAI in Global Corporation

    Hello, I’m white collar in a global banking corp, lately I’m trying to use genAI (gpt) to my advantage in my day to day work. The idea I’m pursuing is giving all inputs and ideas I…

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    Ask HN: AI Training for Executive Level

    I’m looking for specific training, executive level for AI, I have good technical knowledge but for professional purposes I’d love to add this kind of training to my background. Wel…

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    Comment #39554498

    How good is AI refactoring the code? Haven’t tried it yet, but… as someone who has need to work on tons of legacy in the past… looks interesting!

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    Comment #39421547

    Have you thought why isn’t sustainable for you? The main problem I faced was giving in “just this time”. Fat and sugar are addictive and when you fall, it makes it easier to fall a…

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    Comment #39406545

    What worked for me: - quit sugar - quit processed foods - avoid fried food - little fat (even the healthy ones) - no nuts/seeds - lifting weights - little cardio I have completely …

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    Ask HN: Which business school does offer a good program on AI

    I have been looking around and I can see some schools bringing these kind of programs, but I’m concerned about them being little technical or focusing on some examples like ChatGPT…

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    Comment #35214134

    I believe it’s a good thing this shift towards apprenticeships, we don’t really need so many university graduates (I’m talking from an Spanish point of view). More and more the uni…

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    Comment #34146526

    Not anymore, we used to do that and maybe a bunch of customers still have that device to log in, but we have been replacing them (the “hard token”) with a “soft token”, kind of a G…

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    Comment #34103120

    I lead Security in a quite large bank. I love this article, I’ve been advocating for this line of thoughts for more time that I can remember. I have spoken to regulators hundreds o…

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    Comment #34033415

    We will end up using good old banks to hold those assets… at least the regulations make them solvent. We need to read history and see what happened when the banks weren’t regulated…

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    Comment #33315459

    I loved the “5 monkeys” comparison and I agree that everything depends on the real case scenario. My point here is that what the article propose it is no “security through obscurit…

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    Comment #33127347

    I can understand your statement, but by doing that you will find that A LOT of people will check the insecure options because “that a not going to happen to me”. Remember you have …

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    Comment #32964205

    It is not new, it’s been ages since some developers try to show off by bringing “cool” one liners to solve problems. Stretching operators, bringing up imaginative uses for lambda e…

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    Comment #32919807

    There was a Saint that said: “I meditate one hour everyday, well everyday except when I have a lot of work, that day, I meditate two hours.” That proverb is superb, when something …

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    Comment #23538534

    lower, upper and numbers = 62 options | wordlist = 10 000 options: 62^12 = 1e21 10 000^5 = 1e20 The problem is you not using a word generator and instead relying in your invention,…

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    Comment #23080427

    So they are taking advantage of something that should be mandatory. These are the things that let you know the kind of company you are dealing with.

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    Comment #22403155

    That is exactly what I feel. More and more I find Amazon to be closer and closer to a Chinese Bazar of cheap quality items (kind of an AliExpress or dx but with a different perceiv…

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    Comment #22227231

    No, you can only access browser's stored passwords if you can log in as the user in the machine (see second response). In this case, anyone can access that registry and get the pwd…

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    Comment #22227045

    I guess they were proud for using encryption instead of hashing, hence, more secure! Definitely they didn't follow the one and only rule of security: don't roll your own.

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    Kudos to the security expert for the finding but his web page gave eye cancer. Seriously, consider lowering the contrast or chaging typography... Don't know, but it was hard to rea…

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    Comment #22017067

    There is a reason for that, most average Joes just can't handle the technology. You can change OTP-SMS in Banks for TOTP, but it involves more complexity and probably it will be mo…

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    Comment #22017046

    Not true. Not true by far. That's an over statement. 2FA is only one of two factors, you need the the password, you need the mobile number and you need to obtain a duplicate or bei…