A Different View: Exploring the Certificate Store via PowerShell While many turn to the certificate MMC to observe their certificates, I opted for a different angle using PowerShell. Here’s how you can harness PowerShell to extract information about your certificates: 1. To List All Trusted Root CA in the Local Machine: $LocalMachineRootCA = (Get-ChildItem Cert:\LocalMachine\Root\) | Select-Object FriendlyName, Subject, Issuer, NotAfter, NotBefore, HasPrivateKey, Name, Thumbprint $LocalMachineRootCA | Export-Csv -Path .\LocalMachineRootCA.csv -NoTypeInformation 2.

Australian Banks: A Deep Dive into Cipher Security Australian Banks: A Deep Dive into Cipher Security In a world increasingly reliant on online banking, the security protocols and ciphers adopted by banks are more critical than ever. Curiosity led me to investigate which Australian banks might still be operating with outdated ciphers. My method? A PowerShell script, albeit a straightforward one, to parse outputs from SSLSCAN and collate them into comprehensible CSV files.

Introducing PicoProject-Ducky: A DIY Rubber Ducky with Raspberry Pi Pico In the realm of cybersecurity and ethical hacking, the “Rubber Ducky” has long held a legendary status. Originally created by Hak5, this innocuous-looking USB device possesses the power to execute payloads when plugged into a computer. Today, the spirit of the Rubber Ducky is reborn in a new avatar, thanks to the versatility of the Raspberry Pi Pico. I’m thrilled to introduce PicoProject-Ducky, a step-by-step guide to transforming your Raspberry Pi Pico into a custom, potent, and budget-friendly Rubber Ducky alternative.

Recovering and Securing Data from an Old USB Drive In the age of cloud storage, we often forget about the treasure troves of data stored on physical media. This guide walks you through the process of recovering data from an old USB drive, and subsequently, ensuring the data can’t be retrieved again. For this task, I’ll be using a 16 GB USB drive and Kali Linux as the recovery environment.

Over the last few years I have worked with Microsoft Intune, and AzureAD. I always get the request; “We can do this on-premise, why doesn’t it work now in the cloud”. Most of the time it is just a mindset change. Once you understand how cloud native solutions work. One issue that has appeared over and over again is local administrators on workstations that are AzureAD joined only. On-premise we would use LAPS to control administrator accounts, for AzureAD joined devices it’s different, we don’t have a domain or group policy.

The final day at Ignite. This is the shortest of the conference but is always the longest for me. The conference finishes at 2 pm, then it’s the long flight home, 30+ hours of travel. Ignite still has sessions running right up the 2 pm, the HUB area is still open, but the vendors or swag guys are gone. The lunchrooms are cut in half. It was good to see Microsoft providing assistance to attendee that have social issues or disabilities.

The long day. The fourth day of Ignite is always the longs, started at 7am with breakfast and finished 11pm with the trip to the hotel from the after-party. My day was similar to the day before, lots of sessions and extended focus groups. Here are a few of the updates from the sessions. Microsoft Teams, Microsoft has integrated Teams with almost everything they can. There were so many updates its impossible to capture all the changes, best to review the sessions for Microsoft Teams on the MS Ignite site.

Today was a little slower in the information dump then yesterday. I spent more time with the product teams in the hub discussing the new products and solutions. Here are a few of the updates from the sessions. Insider Risk Management, this new service uses the Microsoft Graph, security services and connectors to other systems like SAP, to obtain real-time native signals such as file activity, communications sentiment, abnormal user behaviors and resignation date (If connected to HR).

The days are getting longer, still heaps happening at Ignite. Most of my formal tasks are done now. It was time to look at some of the more exciting things that I don’t usually get to see. Started with a look at the new Power Platform areas in PowerApps and PowerBI. Then headed over to Microsoft focus groups area for a chat with them around notifications, then over to Azure Stack.

MS Ignite 2019, day 1, is now over. There have been so many posts already highlighting what was covered in the keynotes and some sessions during the day, I attempt not to repeat them. Here are some of the key points that I took away from day 1. Vision Keynote. The keynote was only open to 3000 people in The Hub area, the rest had to view for viewing areas around the conference.