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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0
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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

by David das Neves, Jan-Hendrik Peters
July 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
552 pages
13h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Current situation around PowerShell

First of all, we need to clarify the current situation in the field itself. The news is full of malware statements that were using PowerShell. Antivirus companies are describing that there is a decent amount of PowerShell usage within malware, and each day new vulnerabilities are being disclosed. In addition, we saw drastic impacts, with ransomware compromising whole companies and even hospitals by encrypting thousands of machines. We have many security conferences in the world: BlackHat, Def Con, Troopers, BlueHat, and BSides, to name a few. At all of these conferences, we can see demos that make use of PowerShell and demonstrate some attacking or exploiting techniques using it. This is only the tip of ...

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