Exciting news here at PC Cybertek! I’ve expanded the capabilities of the void of sunlight, purple walled, silver celling, neon lit, smoke filled, PC Cybtek Laboratory. And yes, that is an accurate description of the lab. But who cares what the room I spend countless hours staring at monitors looks or smells like? I’ve finally done what I have been threating to do for ages. Get on with it already you say… OK OK After the break, I’ll tell you
An interesting post today, on the Internet Storm Center, reminds us to look over our router logs. Also, disable remote administration of the router, unless it’s absolutely necessary.
You can see what happens when someone guesses an easy password and gets into a router, and the lsessons learned, here.
It was 20 years ago Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Not quite 20 years to the day, but close enough. In this Ted talk, Tim talks about what is the next step in the evolution of the World Wide Web.
Seeing how I’m now running Word Press, it only makes sense that I would tell you about Word Press TV. If you are running Word Press, or are just thinking about using it, you owe it to yourself to give this site a look.
Even though it’s only been up for maybe 2 months, there’s a lot of great content. There’s plenty of How-To videos, for beginners to advanced users. There’s videos about administration, set-up, widgets, publishing, media, plugins, themes, custom design, and more. There is also a section of videos from Word Camp.
I wanted to write about Word Press TV when it first went live, but I haven’t actully spent any amount of time on it, untill recently. Most of them are using vimeo to host their videos, so the quality is execlent. Theses aren’t some junky, pixalated Youtube videos. They are high quality and when I viewed them with HD turned on, the screen captures of in the how-to videos was perfect and crisp and easy to read the all the text in the videos. Even when not in full screen or HD you can read them easily. If only everyone made instructional videos at this quality. Check out the example below.
We interrupt the previous story to get down to what I said we would be featuring this month, Hacking. When it comes to hacking, video tutorials, this site is one of the best. Irongeek’s Hacking Illustrated Videos
can be found at, where else, Irongeek.com
There’s a lot of them and he has been making them himself for years. He also has a tutorial on how he makes the videos. This site isn’t the prettiest sight around but it more than makes up for its looks with great content. From the Basic Nmap Usage, Sniffing VoIP Using Cain, Metasploit Flash Tutorial, Using SysInternals’ Process Monitor to Analyze Apps and Malware, Creating a Windows Live CD for System Recovery and Pen-Testing with Bart’s PE Builder,
and so many more. There’s bound to be something of interest to all but the most seasoned veterans.
While Irongeek maybe best known for his video tutorials, he has also written some nice netowrk security articles. His latest, State Hacking/Computer Security Laws, is very informative and was posted at the end of December of 2007, so it’s current. How To Cyberstalk Potential Employers “This article is less diabolical than its title might imply. Essentially, I want to give the reader some tips for finding more information about a potential employer than the job listing may reveal.” And he does. It’s well written and I like his inclusion of screen shots.
If irongeek.com only had the video section, that would be enough alone for me to recomend it. I’m sure he laid the ground work and inspired others to make hacking video tutorials. There’s also a couple scripts/apps that he wrote, some reviews, and don’t forget the clips of him working out. And if my word isn’t good enough, there’s also half a dozen campuses that use his material. And here’s a nice little link that shows you all the info that can be seen from your browser.
This one is a keeper. Definitely worthy of a bookmark and some time for further exploration. I tip my proverbial hat to Iron Geek. Well done sir.
Video blogs, vlogs, vidcasts, or whatever you want to call them, are really on the rise. I started watching rocketboom quite some time ago. Recently I started hunting around for more and found there are a lot out there. Some of the big players in broadcasting have also started releasing them too.
With so many available to watch, wouldn’t it be nice if there was some software that would let you subscribe to them and view them all in one place? Enter miro. Miro lets you subscribe to all your favorite vidcasts and automaticly download them as they are released. It also has a good sized index, so it is a good place to seek out new ones. It has a built in player that allows you to view them and if you pause it, you can continue watching where you left off, automatically. If there is one you like and it’s not in miro’s index, which currently has over 3000 channels, you can add it. If you already subscribe to some with another program, like iTunes, you can set up a watch directory and miro will import them. You can also search the entire index for any video. Another feature will let you email a link, of any of the videos, to your friends. Maybe you don’t have a ton of space on your hard drive, not a problem, you can set miro to automatically delete content after a certain amout of time.
How much would you pay for a cool piece of software like this? Don’t worry, it’s free! So don’t just sit there, head on over to www.getmiro.com and see what you have been missing.
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