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- Feb 9
- 2 min
How to Setup SMTP Server locally for development environment
Smtp4dev smtp4dev is a dummy SMTP server for Windows, Linux, Mac OS-X (and maybe elsewhere where .NET Core is available). Lets you test...
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- Jan 24
- 7 min
Top 10 Scripting Languages for DevOps Engineers
The scripting language is basically a language where instructions are written for a run time environment. They do not require the...
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- Jan 18
- 3 min
State hackers use new PowerShell backdoor in Log4j attacks
Hackers believed to be part of the Iranian APT35 state-backed group (aka 'Charming Kitten' or 'Phosphorus') has been observed leveraging...
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- Jul 29, 2021
- 6 min
Powershell Cmdlets
A cmdlet is a lightweight command that is used in the PowerShell environment. The PowerShell runtime invokes these cmdlets within the...
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- Apr 27, 2021
- 13 min
Active Directory Enumeration: PowerView
Active Directory Enumeration is a challenge for even some of the seasoned attackers and it is easy to miss some key components and lose...
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- Feb 16, 2021
- 3 min
How to configure Controlled Folder Access using Group Policy & PowerShell in Windows 10
Controlled folder access is an intrusion-prevention feature available with Microsoft Defender Exploit Guard, which is part of the...
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- Feb 13, 2021
- 8 min
How to Connect to Office 365 PowerShell: Azure AD Modules
This post will cover how to connect PowerShell to Office 365 (Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)), which manages Microsoft 365 tenant...
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- Feb 11, 2021
- 6 min
Exfiltrate NTLM Hashes with PowerShell Profiles
In the below example, an unsuspecting user is starting PowerShell with Local Administrator privileges. The session doesn’t appear unusual...
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- Feb 10, 2021
- 3 min
What is a PowerShell variable
Variables are the fundamental part of the Windows PowerShell. We can store all the types of values in the PowerShell variables. For...
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- Feb 10, 2021
- 10 min
What is PowerShell Array
Arrays are a common feature of almost all programming languages. They are a data structure that serves as a collection of multiple pieces...
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- Jan 30, 2021
- 1 min
Find the Hostname of a Hyper-V VM
If you are running a virtual machine (VM) on Hyper-V, sometimes you want to know on which Hyper-V host this VM is running. If you don’t...
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- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Add a PowerShell Remote Session in Windows Terminal
To get started, we need to open up the settings of the Windows Terminal. This will open up a settings.json file, which you can edit in...
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- Dec 11, 2020
- 2 min
You should be customizing your PowerShell Prompt with PSReadLine
I use PowerShell 7 (cross platform, open source, runs on .NET Core) as my main shell of choice at the Windows command line. I use it in...
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- Nov 22, 2020
- 3 min
ADD A POWERSHELL REMOTE SESSION IN WINDOWS TERMINAL
I am sure you have heard about the new Windows Terminal, which is in preview, and you can get it from the Windows Store. In this blog...
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- Nov 12, 2020
- 3 min
Announcing Az Predictor
The Azure PowerShell modules expose over 4,000 cmdlets and, on average, ten parameters per cmdlet. Experienced PowerShell users will find...
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- Oct 2, 2020
- 2 min
Announcing the AzureRM to Az PowerShell Module Migration Toolkit
As many of you know, all versions of the AzureRM PowerShell module are outdated, but not out of support (yet). The Az PowerShell module...
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- Oct 1, 2020
- 4 min
MITRE ATT&CK T1086 PowerShell
Our research has found that PowerShell was the second most prevalent MITRE ATT&CK technique used by adversaries in their...
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- Oct 1, 2020
- 6 min
Emotet Technical Analysis - Part 2 PowerShell Unveiled
Researchers identified Emotet for the first time in 2014 as a banking malware stealing sensitive and private information. Now,...
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- Aug 27, 2020
- 5 min
PowerShell Trend Reporting, Part 2: Send and Receive SQL Server Data
Here's how to track the data pulled from a query. Having spent the last article showing how we can use WMI to perform a query for the...