Kraken ransomware benchmarks systems for optimal encryption choice

The Kraken ransomware, which targets Windows, Linux/VMware ESXi systems, is testing machines to check how fast it can encrypt ...
TheServerSide

AZ-400 Practice Tests on Azure DevOps Engineer Exam Topics

One of the most respected Microsoft DevOps certifications today is the AZ-400 Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert. To pass the AZ-400 certification exam, use AZ-400 exam simulators, review ...
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DP-100 Practice Tests on Data Scientist Associate Exam Topics

These questions come from my Udemy training and the certificationexams.pro website, resources that have helped many students pass the DP-100 certification. These are not DP-100 exam dumps or ...
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Google Uncovers PROMPTFLUX Malware That Uses Gemini AI to Rewrite Its Code Hourly

Google on Wednesday said it discovered an unknown threat actor using an experimental Visual Basic Script (VB Script) malware ...
Redmondmag.com

Best Practices for PowerShell Dot Sourcing, Part 1

Dot sourcing can simplify large PowerShell scripts -- but without a clear structure, it can quickly lead to chaos.
GitHub

Packer powershell provisioner sometimes fails to execute it's scripts on windows host; "Processing -File ''filename.ps1'' failed: The given path's format is not supported"

We are provisioning Windows vm templates using Packer and Ansible on vSphere. We run Packer in a container (alpine-based) in our gitlab CI/CD pipeline. One of the steps in this process behaves ...