• Custom Windows Hardening

    Introduction 4D5A/windows_hardening is a personal fork of 0x6d69636b/windows_hardening by Michael Schneider 0x6d69636b. 0x6d69636b/windows_hardening is a repository used for development and the production repository is HardeningKitty by scipag. The PowerShell module in the scipag/HardeningKitty repository is digitally signed by scipag.1 [Read More]
  • Invoke-DNSQuery

    Introduction Many Network Administrators and Systems Administrators frequently respond to questions about why an email wasn’t received by someone in their organization. The questions are often asked with a tone of “why did you block my email?” or “something is obviously wrong, because I should have received that email” and... [Read More]
  • Get-PKICertificates

    Introduction When I first started scripting with PowerShell, I came across the Get-PSDrive cmdlet. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/get-psdrive?view=powershell-7.3 Immediately one of the things that stood out to me was that with PowerShell, it was possible to access storage devices, the registry, and certificate stores similar to the process of accessing storage devices with... [Read More]