Gems

I recently had the opportunity to meet with a few aspiring cybersecurity students and talk to them about the virtues of IDSes, IPSes, Firewalls, Honey Pots, and compensating controls. It was a blast, and it’s clear that the future is in good hands with these professionals at the wheel. After my little talk, I told them about a tool that would help them learn how to hack WiFi even if they didn’t have equipment. I had gotten the knowledge from Black Hill’s Security Blog. I asked if any of the students had heard of Black Hills, and they said. “No”. I responded that Black Hills was one of my favorite blogs that came across my RSS feed. I saw some puzzled looks. ...

So I’ve mentioned quite a few times that I use a program called newsboat as my primary way to access the internet. I use it to: Subscribe to all the blogs I love to read Subscribe to all the Subreddits that I like to see Subscribe to all the podcasts that I like to listen to (although Castero is good for this too) Subscribe to all the Youtube channels I love to view ...

The Coolest Hacker Trick I’ve ever learned When I was just a pitiful script-kiddie, I spent hours watching Hak5 episodes. There was something so welcoming about Darren and Shannon explaining basic Linux skills. In this hak5 technolust episode, Darren does something that blew my mind. In the link in the last sentence, watch between 3:46 and 7:10 of the video. He describes a scenario where one of the client devices (in this case, a Lan Turtle) that connects to his vpn server is designated as a “vpn gateway” for all the other devices. ...

The Old web was better I hear a persistent complaint levied by people who have been using computers since Dial-up was a thing. (psssst… kids… Dial-up was an old technology where you gave your computer a phone and it would scream at another computer over the phone in some weird machine language. If you picked up the phone, you could hear them talking.) You can see this argument on: Reddit ...

I’ve found the perfect tech video. Seriously, it changed my entire outlook on things. I’ve spent over 10 years spending most of my free time watching technical videos on various computing topics. That is an unfathomable amount of hours of content. In that time, there have been a number of videos that helped to shape my perspective on computers and how they can be used. One of them stands above the rest though, and it can be located here: ...