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CBT Nuggets Releases BackTrack and Kali Linux Training

Introducing a new training series from CBT Nuggets, “BackTrack and Kali Linux.”

In this 40-video series, trainer Keith Barker covers the best tools for penetration testing, information gathering and vulnerability assessment. Barker explains how to use these free Linux distributions to identify weaknesses in order to strengthen network security.

From installing BackTrack on a virtual machine to working with Kali Linux on a Raspberry Pi, Keith demonstrates how to use these powerful tools, and he explains how to prevent attacks using tools like Hydra, Scapy, and Parasite6.

This series is aimed at network technicians who want to learn about penetration testing and anyone with network experience interested in white hat hacking.

About CBT Nuggets: CBT Nuggets is a computer-based technology company specializing in cutting-edge online IT, project management and office productivity training.

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QUIZ: Are You A Travel Genius?

Planning a trip to an exciting place this summer? There’s plenty to do to get ready: Write a must-pack list, buy a new sun hat, or even pick up some travel-hardy luggage. But allow us to suggest an additional (and arguably more entertaining) way to prepare: Play our travel and culture quiz—and find out how ready for takeoff you really are. Whether you’re an amateur traveler or your passport is overpopulated with stamps, you’ll test your current knowledge of the globe and brush up on world facts before you go.

Remember to share your score with us, challenge your friends—and let us know what our next quiz should highlight. We hope our quiz inspires you to explore and discover even more.

Autobiography Meaning: Learn the Definition and Peculiarities!

Student life can be full of discoveries. One day you will discover the essay, the next day the research paper, and someday you’ll definitely encounter… the autobiography. What is that thing? you might be wondering.

Writing an autobiography is quite similar to writing a story. However, unlike writing an autobiography, story writing is less focused on the narrator making it a tad easier type of writing. However, if you check the autobiography definition that experts offer, youll learn that there’s really nothing to writing an autobiography!

By this time, a lot of questions might start to pop up, and the main one probably is What is an autobiography and biography? As a

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Statistical portal now available through Smathers

The University of Floridas George A. Smathers Libraries now subscribe to Statista.com, the first statistics portal in the world to integrate data on more than 60,000 topics from more than 18,000 sources onto a single professional platform.

Categorized into 21 market sectors, Statista.com provides companies, business customers, research institutions and the academic community with direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.

Faculty, students and staff can download graphs, which will be a useful resource for student papers and faculty lectures, as well as a reference tool that indexes, sources and links to original sources of data.

Early scoring lifts Enumclaw to SPSL 3A fastpitch tournament championship

Regular-season champion Enumclaws early scoring was decisive in its 6-3 fastpitch victory over Bonney Lake in the South Puget Sound League 3A tournament championship game at Boise Creek Park in Enumclaw.

The Hornets Sarah Morrow laced a double to left-center in the first inning, and Chloe Young drove her in with an RBI triple to give Enumclaw a 1-0 lead.

Morrow later added a two-run double to right field an inning later to give the Hornets a 4-0 advantage.

The Panthers cut it to 4-2 on Bailey Aherns two-run double in the fourth inning. Other than that, Enumclaw starting pitcher Quinn Braidenbach (seven innings, eight strikeouts) gave up very little.

Enumclaw earns the No. 1 seed to next weeks West Central District tournament.

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For young students, a C# coding workshop for kids

As the need for mobile apps developers increases and interest in computer science courses wanes, professional educator-programmers are reaching out to a younger generation of potential coders: students as young as 10.

In Utah this week, two programmers from the nonprofit TeachingKidsProgramming.org are holding workshops at seven schools around the state to expose students and teachers to C# (C-sharp) programming.

The curriculum the programmers will share with the Utah students is based on a free online curriculum that they developed for Pluralsight that was originally intended for use by professional programmers to share online with their own children at home.

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