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Editors Pick
Here are some of the articles specially picked by me for your reading…
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Enable PowerShell SSH Remoting in PowerShell 7
In this blog post, we will have a look at how you can enable and set up PowerShell SSH Remoting or PowerShell Remoting over SSh with PowerShell 7. With PowerShell Core 6, Microsoft introduced PowerShell 7 Remoting over SSH, which allows true multiplatform PowerShell remoting between Linux, macOS, and Windows. PowerShell SSH Remoting creates a PowerShell host process on the target machine as an SSH subsystem. Normally, Windows PowerShell remoting uses WinRM for connection negotiation and data transport. However, WinRM is only available on Windows-based machines.
There are also some downsides to it. SSH-based remoting doesn’t currently support remote endpoint configuration and JEA (Just Enough Administration). It is also important to understand that this is not just another PowerShell SSH client. [Read more]
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PowerShell and Containers
by @phillipsj73
Did you know that Microsoft published official container images for PowerShell? Those official images can be found here, and one cool thing to note is that there are even some ARM images. It is incredibly cool that these are provided as it makes shipping PowerShell tools simpler or hosting any PowerShell based script. I have two different use cases that I can demonstrate that make these pretty cool. The first demo is going to be using the Alpine image as the base image for building a container that hosts a Polaris based REST API, like I blogged about a few weeks ago. The second demo will be to host a PowerShell script that needs to run as a sidecar to a SQL Server container. Let’s dive into these demos. [Read more]
Trending Github Repositories
Github repositories that are trending are a good way to find and contribute to some cool PowerShell projects! Following is the list of top 10 trending PowerShell Github repositories.
Repository | Description | Stars | Forks | Num Of Stars Today |
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fireeye/ThreatPursuit-VM | Threat Pursuit Virtual Machine (VM): A fully customizable, open-sourced Windows-based distribution focused on threat intelligence analysis and hunting designed for intel and malware analysts as well as threat hunters to get up and running quickly. | 579 | 73 | 424 |
actions/virtual-environments | GitHub Actions virtual environments | 1,477 | 619 | 30 |
pnp/sp-dev-list-formatting | SharePoint List Formatting Samples | 503 | 365 | 10 |
PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit | PowerSploit – A PowerShell Post-Exploitation Framework | 7,655 | 2,955 | 20 |
fireeye/commando-vm | Complete Mandiant Offensive VM (Commando VM), a fully customizable Windows-based pentesting virtual machine distribution. commandovm@fireeye.com | 3,885 | 838 | 101 |
lextm/windowsterminal-shell | Install/uninstall scripts for Windows Terminal context menu items | 702 | 70 | 30 |
ChrisTitusTech/win10script | This is the Ultimate Windows 10 Script from a creation from multiple debloat scripts and gists from github. | 547 | 509 | 38 |
lukesampson/scoop | A command-line installer for Windows. | 11,860 | 980 | 63 |
leebaird/discover | Custom bash scripts used to automate various penetration testing tasks including recon, scanning, parsing, and creating malicious payloads and listeners with Metasploit. | 2,139 | 646 | 8 |
tibold/svg-explorer-extension | Extension module for Windows Explorer to render SVG thumbnails, so that you can have an overview of your SVG files | 1,461 | 84 | 16 |
BloodHoundAD/BloodHound | Six Degrees of Domain Admin | 4,704 | 939 | 15 |
Trending PowerShell Developers on Github
Following is the list developer building some cool projects and tools in PowerShell on Github, and popular repositories in their profiles.
Developer | Popular Repository | Repository Description |
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Richard Fennell | AzurePipelines | A single Repo to contain the source for ALL my Azure DevOps Build/Release Extensions. The packages can be found in the Azure DevOps Marketplace |
Dmitry Kireev | wimaging | Windows Imaging Toolkit |
David O’Brien | slackbot_flightinfo | slack bot using 3rd party weather API to output airport weather and flight information to Slack |
Isaac Levin | PresenceLight | PresenceLight is a solution to broadcast your various statuses to a Phillips Hue or LIFX light bulb. |
Keith Dahlby | posh-git | A PowerShell environment for Git |
Ingvar Stepanyan | WiFi-Password | People ask you for the Wi-Fi password. Answer quickly. |
Friedrich Weinmann | SPOTools | Sharepoint Online Utilities |
Top Tweets
If you are into tech then you can’t miss these PowerShell related popular tweets in last week, here is the list of top 10 most popular PowerShell tweets…
Twitter Handle | Retweet Count | Favorite Count | Status | Status URL |
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@syst_and_deploy | 101 | 296 | You can convert a PS1 file to EXE with iexpress which is installed by default on Windows
#powershell… https://t.co/1B4HZZuBgf |
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@ThomasMaurer | 32 | 90 | Enable PowerShell SSH Remoting in PowerShell 7 💻 https://t.co/HevCFFShg1 #PowerShell #PS7Now #SSH https://t.co/xYJX79I35N |
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@SharePoint | 26 | 30 | A new version of the #SharePoint Online Management Shell (16.0.20616.12000) is now available from #PowerShell galle… https://t.co/BV4EKG4HWF | [Tweet] |
@mohrpheus78 | 24 | 70 | Automatically configure a Windows Fileserver for @citrix UPM or @fslogix profiles with #PowerShell
– Initialize a… https://t.co/mIytf1MdUP |
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@ptracesecurity | 20 | 80 | Powershell script for enumerating vulnerable DCOM Applications https://t.co/JHoHLO8431 #Pentesting #PowerShell… https://t.co/fYsK4jXFOc | [Tweet] |
@syst_and_deploy | 20 | 58 | Display simple toast notification for user in System context when running a Proactive Remediation script… https://t.co/9txHYdkR4r | [Tweet] |
@KitPloit | 20 | 49 | DeepBlueCLI – a PowerShell Module for Threat Hunting via Windows Event Logs https://t.co/YiPGnqmfpj #Auditing… https://t.co/ArrpWAe8gf | [Tweet] |
@ptracesecurity | 17 | 26 | Performing domain recon using PowerShell https://t.co/wzhROvwfb6 #Pentesting #ActiveDirectory #PowerShell… https://t.co/jz570qDgQr | [Tweet] |
@AzureCrazy | 17 | 21 | Chris Black, Azure Stack Technical Authority & Azure MVP writes about Azure Stack Hub, getting started, what to loo… https://t.co/MIwUwtT1hZ | [Tweet] |
@Themarkchristie | 17 | 21 | There are only 14 hours left to submit for @scottishsummit
do it quickly https://t.co/eSJN2lTJtQ #Azure… https://t.co/gfJYq9ebEP |
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Top Reddit posts
PowerShell Reddit r/PowerShell is a vibrant community and you should be on board if you want to get onto the nerve of PowerShell Community, here is a list of top Reddit posts from last week..
Author | Title | Ups | Num of Comments | URL |
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/u/ItsMeCookieMonster | Win10Debloat – Remove bloatware, disable bing in windows search & declutter windows 10 | 107 | 39 | [Post] |
/u/phillipsj73 | PowerShell and Containers | 102 | 9 | [Post] |
/u/PowerShellMichael | Free PowerShell Security e-Book by Script Runner | 84 | 11 | [Post] |
/u/adbertram | How to Get a Computer Name with PowerShell | 53 | 29 | [Post] |
/u/Egg-Yolk | Unfamiliar with this command. | 41 | 30 | [Post] |
/u/rxece | What to use Powershell for at home (practice projects)? | 39 | 21 | [Post] |
/u/shab3y | Start and execute Windows Updates on multiple servers | 34 | 26 | [Post] |
/u/xlogiic2 | Select-String with Regex | 33 | 22 | [Post] |
/u/AndersAdmin | All scheduled tasks in the domain and the accounts running them | 29 | 11 | [Post] |
/u/PowerShellChallenge | SecretManagement and SecretStore Updates | 19 | 2 | [Post] |
New on Youtube
Here are all new PowerShell videos uploaded on youtube.com last week!
Channel | Title | URL |
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SANS Digital Forensics and Incident Response |
Hunting Powershell Obfuscation with Linear Regression |
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Tomislav Lulic |
PowerShell 7: Benefits and challenges |
[Video] |
SpringPeople Software Pvt Ltd | Leveraging the Power of Windows Powershell | [Video] |
Citrix Developer |
Monitoring Citrix Cloud with OData and PowerShell |
[Video] |
Bestseller Books on Leanpub.com
Here are the top 10 book titles which were trending as bestsellers under the PowerShell category!
Author of “PowerShell Guide to Python“, “Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)” and currently writing the most awaited book: “PowerShell to C# and Back” !
Prateek Singh
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Hi,
quite interesting links (mainly the PowerSploit)! Maybe this project https://github.com/ztrhgf/Powershell_CICD_repository you will find useful too 😉