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Alexander V. Leonov
Personal blog · avleonov.comsecurityprogramming
Alexander V. Leonov's personal blog at avleonov.com covers security and programming. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these posts about SikuliX, a tool for visual, image-based UI automation with a Python-based IDE, and about whether data science can be done in a GUI. The comments cite the posts rather than judge their writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal blog about vulnerability and compliance management products, security content and standards for security automation (OVAL and SCAP)
What Hacker News says?
SikuliX is halfway between CLI and GUI: https://avleonov.com/2017/02/13/sikulix-the-last-chance-for-...
Comment linking /2017/02/13/sikulix-the-last-chance-for-automation/
on “You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI”Submitted Hacking Wordpress with 'getsploit' tool as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAlso cursory search of ExploitWareLabs highlights lack of publish rigor from previous expose last year. Juice: >Our research team studied the video and we have several reasons to doubt its authenticity. We’ve conducted a thorough audit over the last 48 hours based the few details that are in the video and didn’t find anything. We reached out the researcher and instead of replying he removed the video*. We’ll communi…
Comment linking /tag/exploitwarelabs/
on “Huawei P30 Pro alleged to be querying China servers”Submitted Potential RCE in Nessus 7 and Attacks on Vulnerability Scanners as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSikuliX was a UI automation tool from over a decade ago with an IDE that looked similar to their screenshots: https://avleonov.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/script_windo... The language was just python and the IDE swapped out certain functions' arguments with the image and targets within the image that the code referred to. It also had a bunch of built-in functionality that let you manipulate the images and targets…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2017/02/script_window.png
on “Mixing Visual and Textual Code”Submitted Vulners Subsriptions and Apache Struts RCE as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have you heard about vulners.com? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
