[IGNITE ’18] Up Close with the Experts – Paula J’s Interview with Jeffrey Snover

During the Microsoft Ignite 2018, Paula J asked the father of PowerShell how big a challenge it was to make his baby cross-platform.

What kind of future Jeffrey Snover wants to build using code in a world where organs already rely on software to function, and why PowerShell 6.1 doesn’t have as many PowerShell features in it as Jeffrey would like? Find out all the answers in the below interview.

 

How To Capture Secrets By Disguising As Web Proxy?

Shhh! Everyone loves a good secret, and in this tutorial, we will show you how to capture a few of them using Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD). WPAD is the Internet protocol which allows a client (in this case we use a Web browser) to automatically locate and interface with cache services in a network.

You will learn:

• How to analyze messages without interrupting traffic
• How to investigate the WPAD file manually
• Why playing with a Proxy can be dangerous

Going Undercover With Invoke-Obfuscation

In this episode of Hacks Weekly, our cybersecurity expert Adrian demonstrates how hackers avoid penetration test detection by using the Invoke-Obfuscation tool to make their PowerShell commands look unreadable.