In the spirit of sharing I thought I would share how I create virtual machines on Windows 10 using Hyper-v using differencing disks. I work with a lot of different customers and needed a way to quickly create new VM’s ready to go. A normal approach would be to have a deployment solution (MDT) running […]
This post is all about how I created a PowerShell script to automate the process of generating USB sticks used in a Social engineering attack. The goal with the attack was to measure if the employees inserted the USB sticks and opened any documents. It was not a goal to exploit the users. The Manual way So […]
So every now and than you meet people who have not found the joy of the shell yet. My mate thought it could only be used to manage users in AD and Exchange etc. So I took up on me this challenge to bless his mind with PowerShell love. Since he is a geeky nerd […]
I needed the SDK to automate some stuff in the Skype for Business 2016 client. I discovered that there is no SDK for Skype for Business 2016 and when I tried to install the Lync 2013 SDK I got this error message: Microsoft Lync 2013 not found. I Googled this and found out that you […]
Many organizations are using the benefits of Distributed vSwitches (DVS) for simplified network management. However, there are still a lot of standard vSwitches being used. With VLAN segmentation being common, portgroups are being used as a representation of VLANs on standard vSwitches. Creating new portgroups manually can easily lead to errors, especially if the task […]
A quick post with a little script I have created to find out how long it took for the BitLocker encryption to finish the encryption of the harddrive. This script needs to run not too long after the encryption has occured, since it relies on the eventlog: $BitLockerEvents = get-eventlog -LogName system -Source Microsoft-Windows-BitLocker-Driver $BitLockerStart […]
Since there has been a lot of writing in Norwegian media about Norwegian Government pages that still uses old protocols and ciphers, I decided to post a PowerShell script I use when I setup Windows Servers in order to disable the old protocols and ciphers. NRK has written in detail how they conducted their research here […]
I often want to show customers how a ransomware attack will affect the business. Finding all the network shares that you have write access to as a normal user can take a lot of time to do manually. As a result of this I have created a script that I have called Ransomware simulator. The […]
I must say I am very impressed by the PowerShell ISE editor. It has so many cool features that I thought I would write a little blogpost about them. Tip 1 – Help on CMDlets: If you place the insertion pointer inside a cmdlet you can press F1 and get detailed help about it. […]
This blogpost is based on an evil thought I have had. After all, I have been a pentester for several years, so «evil» ideas are a part of my mindset. Let’s say I want to plant a backdoor on future machines, where would I put my backdoor? Inside the WIM that is used to deploy […]