There are 3 main kind of hackers. Black Hat Hackers are malicious hackers that intend to do damage by exploiting vulnerabilities that they discover. White Hat Hackers (ethical hackers) are normally employed to use their knowledge and skill for the good of discovering vulnerabilities and providing a solution for rectifying them. Grey Hat Hackers sit […]
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Encryption is converting data to a format that cannot be read without knowing the key/password used to convert the data. The key used for converting data will need to be supplied to decrypt the data to make it readable. This is a two-way process, encrypting the data and decrypting the data. Hashing also converts the […]
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Pen Testing is short for penetration testing and is a process completed by an ethical hacker to find vulnerabilities in a system and offer a way to remediate them.
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Cyber Security is mitigating and where possible preventing the risk of a digital attack. This can include a physical attack on hardware (physically destroying the data) as well as software based attacks (E.G. using malicious code to destroy data or disrupt a service).
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There is so much information to provide on PowerShell profiles that really a blog post dedicated to this question would be better, and is something I will probably do. For now however here is a shorter more basic answer. A PowerShell Profile is a PowerShell script that runs when you open either the PowerShell console […]
Continue ReadingWhy should I learn PowerShell?
A better question may be why shouldn’t you learn PowerShell? PowerShell is an incredibly useful scripting language that can allow you to manage multiple servers or endpoints extremely easily and quickly. With the implementation of Desired State Configuration you can manage your infrastructure as code. PowerShell can save you a huge amount of time by […]
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PowerShell is a framework developed by Microsoft that enables managing servers and PCs via a scripting language. It is built on the .NET framework.
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