Americas funniest home videos, cyber style

Many security related movies can be found on the Internet. Some are fun. Some are sad. Most of them are educational. It could be argued that it is not a good thing to have them in a blog like this, but, the are all very easily find using google video or any other search engine. I would argue against that and raise two objections; first I believe that we (good guys) need to share information - the bad guys already do, which gives them the advantage. Secondly, I do not think that most people understand the waste diversity of information available - anything from breaking into WLANs to manipulating vending machines. If you think a bit philosoplical about that, you soon realize that most things are vulnerable. That piece of thinking is something that is good to always remember in the back of your head when you design any solution. You don't want to have a web page or a video dedicated to your failures or mailing list discussion on why your solution suck. Anyway, This is a collection of some "home videos" i found by browsing the web for half an hour.

The first video is about a Berkeley Professor giving some serious rant about the consequences for the one who have stolen his laptop.

Magnus Ranum (internet security guru) have a collection of home videos, including Detonating baby food or safe cracking

IT related videos include several types of cathegories. Wireless network videos seem to be quite popular. WEP hacking is a short(4 mins) on how to break into someones wireless network. Here's another one where they hack a 128 bit WEP network.

We have included some mandatory Windows hacking and another one called get "r00t" privlages (note their bad spelling :-). It's easy to find videos of Windows Password hacking and another one using LC4.

One cathegory of videos are interviews with "hackers". One interesting video was shot at the DefCon conference.

There is also a number of hardware hacking videos: how to crack open a iPod nano, Xbox (2h3m) and Xbox 360 (2 mins). Someone even taped a video on how to hack the menu system of a vending machine. Academic video on how to hack a Voting machine was taped by researchers in Princeton. Some more fun videos, from a classical hacker definition type of fun, is these videos from Chaos Computer Club.

There is some IPTV shows floating around, including thebroken, DougTV, etc.

Google have had some interesting guest lecturers for their engineers speaking on How To Break Web Software - A look at security vulnerabilities in web software (1h30m) or Crime: The Real Internet Security Problem (1h).

As a short summary, it is also important to remember all the interesting webcasts made available by Microsoft, SANS and others where you can find tons of information on security problems as well as fixing security.