The latest quarterly threat report from McAfee noted a fourfold increase in fileless hacking attacks utilising Microsoft PowerShell scripts. PowerShell is used mainly to automate administration tasks, ...

VP and CISO for Star and Disney India, overseeing the company's cybersecurity strategy in India. Passionate Whitehat hacker. LinkedIN. Organizations have had a tough time controlling the menace of ...

Microsoft says Windows PowerShell now warns when running scripts that use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to download web content, aiming to prevent potentially risky code from executing. As Microsoft ...

Attackers are increasingly abusing sanctioned tools to subvert automated defenses. Tracking your Windows fleet’s PowerShell use — especially consultant workstations — can provide early indications of ...

Microsoft has made security changes to one of the most popular tools bundled with Windows installations, and now users must ...

To avoid errors, it's important to write PowerShell scripts that prevent code from running on an unintended platform. Luckily, this is easier to do than it sounds. Up until a few years ago, PowerShell ...

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...

We're going to build off my previous series to show how to further the communication channel between Excel and PowerShell. In a recent series of posts, I explained how to launch a PowerShell script ...