The powershell execution policy can be limiting.  Find out what yours is by entering powershell and typing Get-ExecutionPolicy: If the policy is set to Restricted, that means scripts are not allowed.  Only the interactive shell is allowed.  The obvious thing to do is...

Powershell has recently come into the spotlight as more than just a sysadmin tool, but a great cyber security tool.  This was emphasized by many of the popular hacker cons this last year. One incredibly useful tool is Powersploit.  It is a set of powershell scripts...

Shellshock is a vulnerability reminiscent of Heartbleed.  The large majority of servers on the internet are vulnerable, and the vulnerability has existed for a long time before it was publicly discovered.  There are a number of CVE’s for different Shellshock attacks,...

Heartbleed is a very serious vulnerability that came out this year, known by CVE-2014-0160.  The problem occurs in the heartbeat code of the OpenSSL library.  The idea is that an origination server sends a random bit of data to a target server.  That target server...