How to Play Youtube in Vlc Player to Get Greater Volume to a Max 300%

How to get VLC add-on to play Youtube Playlists and Videos

Official plugin page.   

INSTALLATION

Get the latest version of the "Youtube" script from here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/videolan/vlc/master/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua


Download when the file appears click on the menu file > save as... of your browser
put the file in the vlc /lua/playlist folder, by default:

* Windows (all users): %ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist\
* Windows (current user): %APPDATA%\vlc\lua\playlist\
/!\ Some browser (Chrome...) may change the file extension for ".txt" instead of ".lua", so make sure you choose "All extensions" in the dialog box when you save the file on your computer.

/!\ Reboot your VLC Player, maybe more than once.

USAGE

Copy the URL of the youtube video or playlist (must contain "list=PL...")

Start VLC, press Ctrl+N, paste the url then click on "Play" (or Alt+P then Enter), the video /playlist should start

Troubleshooting:

Follow this steps if and only if you have already install the script and it doesn't work..
for the actual script see the "download" button (playlist_youtube.lua) below.

If the videos list appears in the Vlc "playlist" view but the videos won't start, follow this steps:

1) delete the file "youtube.luac" in [vlc directory]/lua/playlist directory (ex: c:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist\youtube.luac)

2) get the latest version of thr "youtube" script from here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/videolan/vlc/master/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua
3) place the file in the directory [vlc directory]/lua/playlist (where "youtube.luac" was)

UPDATE March 7, 2019 

1. https://gist.github.com/seraku24/db42e0e418b2252f2136d2d7f1656be5Download  to 149909-playlist_youtube-vlc3patch.lua and
   copy to c:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist\
2. Remove old 149909-playlist_youtube.lua, or rename to 149909-playlist_youtube.xxxxlua
3. Mixes (auto generated by Google do not work now this must be a playlist)

GETTING THE RIGHT PLAYLIST LINK 

TIP! If you cannot find the playlist link

Right-click on page and View Page Source and search for the following

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL 

Copy and past resultant URL  into VLC (using Ctrl-N). 

INCREASING MAX VOLUME in VLC Player to 300%

For laptops and headphone users, increase poor audio sources to higher volumes was a savior!

Getting Slammed With Apple Phishing Emails and Apple Denies Reporting of Phishing Emails

In slight twist of fate, I am try to do the right thing by reporting Apple phishing emails to the right place at abuse@apple.com, as recommended by Apple, but I can no longer do so.

I guess recently, and as part of this blog I have submitted to many. I have been able to submit about 1 per month over course of last few years, but recently I phishing attack has reached my inbox almost daily of course of last 3 months. Then suddenly, I got cut off, see notice below. 

I guess this is one way Apple can trim it's responsibility and reported phishing claims, just don't let people report them! Rather discouraging!

Latest Antivirus Product Comparison Testing Roundup Sept 2018

SE Labs tests security products that are designed to protect your computer systems and mobile devices.

Get review of Antivirus Products for Sept 2018 here. 

Get it Spectre / Meltdown BIOS fix for older processors Windows 8, 7 and XP

Intel fixed the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities allow speculative execution side-channel attacks, specifically CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754 but only for modern CPUs.  Essentially CPUs sold running with Windows 10 pre-installed on the machines, leaving a larger part of CPUs unsupported. 

Check Intel's official support page for CPUs fixed. 

Not to be detered Eran "Regeneration" Badit created the Intel Microcode Boot Loader, which fixes this but in a round-about perhaps uncomfortable way, you have have plugged in a USB stick with the fix every time you boot the computer.

The tool will use the Intel BIOS Implementation Test Suite (BITS) and the Syslinux bootloader to automatically detect and apply the most current microcodes for an Intel processor.  This allows computer using old processors to become protected.

See Intel Microcode Boot Loader official post for instructions to install.

The current release includes the latest ucodes for 392 Intel CPUs produced from 1996 to 2018.

Sysinternals Procdump Now Available on Linux

ProcDump is a command-line utility whose primary purpose is monitoring an application for CPU spikes and generating crash dumps during a spike that an administrator or developer can use to determine the cause of the spike. ProcDump also includes hung window monitoring (using the same definition of a window hang that Windows and Task Manager use), unhandled exception monitoring and can generate dumps based on the values of system performance counters. It also can serve as a general process dump utility that you can embed in other scripts. 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procdump

Download ProcDump for Linux (GitHub)

Below is a video episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen walk you through Sysinternals ProcDump. ProcDump allows you to capture the memory of a process running on the computer. The dump file can be of varying size and can be taken with varying outage durations. Dumps can be triggered immediately or can be triggered by a variety of events including CPU utilization, Memory utilization, a Performance Counter, a Hung Window and/or Native/Managed exceptions.
 

How to Find the Original Directory Where the App Was Launched From While the App Is in a Different Directory - Bug Found

When running an command line .exe from the command line to launch an app from a current folder, Environment.CurrentDirectory displays the wrong folder, when the command is run with escalated privledges. It displays the location of the exe, not the current folder.

C:\Users\Markus\Documents > testexe.EXE

TestExe.exe resides in c:\windows\system32 

Here's output running TestExe.exe

Specifically if you set app.config to get your app to run as Administrator with UAC prompt

 <requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />

this will return the location of the exe, not the current directory the exe is run from.

Super frustrating and a bug in .NET.

Here's the simple source code

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using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; namespace TestExe { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine(Environment.CurrentDirectory); Console.Read(); } } }

Here's app.config code

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <asmv1:assembly manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" xmlns:asmv1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" xmlns:asmv2="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" name="MyApplication.app"/> <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2"> <security> <requestedPrivileges xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3"> <!-- UAC Manifest Options If you want to change the Windows User Account Control level replace the requestedExecutionLevel node with one of the following. <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false" /> <requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" /> <requestedExecutionLevel level="highestAvailable" uiAccess="false" /> Specifying requestedExecutionLevel node will disable file and registry virtualization. If you want to utilize File and Registry Virtualization for backward compatibility then delete the requestedExecutionLevel node. --> <requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" /> </requestedPrivileges> </security> </trustInfo> <compatibility xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1"> <application> <!-- A list of all Windows versions that this application is designed to work with. Windows will automatically select the most compatible environment.--> <!-- If your application is designed to work with Windows Vista, uncomment the following supportedOS node--> <!--<supportedOS Id="{e2011457-1546-43c5-a5fe-008deee3d3f0}"></supportedOS>--> <!-- If your application is designed to work with Windows 7, uncomment the following supportedOS node--> <!--<supportedOS Id="{35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}"/>--> <!-- If your application is designed to work with Windows 8, uncomment the following supportedOS node--> <!--<supportedOS Id="{4a2f28e3-53b9-4441-ba9c-d69d4a4a6e38}"></supportedOS>--> <!-- If your application is designed to work with Windows 8.1, uncomment the following supportedOS node--> <!--<supportedOS Id="{1f676c76-80e1-4239-95bb-83d0f6d0da78}"/>--> </application> </compatibility> <!-- Enable themes for Windows common controls and dialogs (Windows XP and later) --> <!-- <dependency> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" version="6.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="*" publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df" language="*" /> </dependentAssembly> </dependency>--> </asmv1:assembly>

Apple Phishing Email - RE: [New Statement] Your account has been locked due to suspicious activity CASE ID : [FWD.] [Update Report]

For the record, this is an Apple phishing email attempt that is recently going around and made it through spam filters. What to do?  Report them, goto bottom of page.

From : Apple Service Subject : RE: [New Statement] Your account has been locked due to suspicious activity CASE ID : [FWD.] [Update Report] ATTACHED DOCX CONTENTS - ALWAYS OPEN WITH WORD VIEWER ONLINE AρρleID Locked Aggrement We emailed you a little while ago to ask for your help resolving an issued with your AρρleID, Your AppleID is still temporarily Locked for security reason. If you or someone else enters your password, security questions, or other account information incorrectly too many times, Your AρρleID automatically locks to protect your security. You can unlock your Aρρle ID after you verify your identity. We want to work with you to restore your account as quickly as possible. What will happen if your AρρleID has been Locked? * You can’t make payment * You can’t access personal data that are associated with the your AρρleID How can you unlocked your AρρleID You must login to Your AρρleID to the following link (https://aρρleid.aρρle.com/account#!&Page=Unlock) PHISHING LINK  https://www.appidaccountmanageinformationupdatetsatsa.com/?sign Follow Step by step to Unlock your AρρleID. If you have not signed recently and Believe someone may have accessed your account, Go to AρρleID (https://iforgot.aρρle.com/password/verify/aρρleid) and change your password as soon as possible. Sincerely, Aρρle Support Note: If the informations above looks familiar, you can ignore this message

It contains infected DOCX file: Doc_UserNotice.docx

PHISHING LINKs;  

1. (https://aρρleid.aρρle.com/account#!&Page=Unlock) PHISHING LINK 

https://www.appidaccountmanageinformationupdatetsatsa.com/?sig

How to tell this is a Phishing email ?

1. Check email address in full, if it's not from originating company then it's phishing.
2. Hover over all links in email, if it's not from the apple.com site then forget it.
   
   
3. The best way is to look at message source, see below.

How to examine Email Message Source ?

Now lets look at message source

1. Outlook.com->Actions->View Message Source. 
2. Gmail.com->More (down arrow to top right)->Show original.

Check for suspicious links, anything that does not originate from apple.com.

Report Phishing Email (not as Spam)

1. Outlook.com->Junk (at Top)->Phishing Scam
2. Gmail.com->More (downarrow to top right)->Report Phishing 

Report Phishing URLs at Google now 

If you have recievied this email take further action now by click these links

1. https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

Report phishing at Microsoft and government agencies

1. http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-faq.aspx

Report phishing emails to Apple 

Forward the email to abuse@icloud.com. This provides Apple's legal department and law enforcement with useful information to help prevent future phishing emails.

There is not such thing as security

There is not such thing as security, this applies to all platforms and operating systems.

Jon McCoy - Hacking .Net Applications: The Black Arts
This presentation will cover the Black Arts of making Cracks, KeyGens, Malware, and more. The information in this presentation will allow a .NET programmer to do unspeakable things .NET applications. I will cover the life cycle of developing such attacks and over coming common countermeasures to stop such attacks. New tools to assist in the attacks will be supplied. This presentation will focus on C# but applies to any application based on the .NET framework.

Jon McCoy is a .NET Software Engineer that focused on security and forensics. He has worked on a number of Open Source projects ranging from hacking tools to software for paralyzed people. With a deep knowledge of programming under the .NET Framework he has released new attacks on live applications and the .NET Framework it self. He provides consulting to protect .NET applications.



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