Joshua Robbins
My interests, projects and notes relating to Computer Science and Cyber Security
Found myself in a situation I needed to search 20+ documents for a keyword and unfortunately Word cannot search files within a directory for keywords, only the current document. Thankfully we can automate this with PowerShell. The script below will: Accept a directory path and keyword Open each file found and search for the keyword […]
This method may benefit from some social engineering but will require local Administrator on an machine within the network. Social engineering can be used to speedup the process of enticing a Domain Admin (DA) to login to a system and in-return provide us DA rights. Should you need to obtain local Administrator privileges and you […]
This is an old but still relevant method of gaining access to an local Administrator account on any windows machine running Vista on-wards. Note: This method will only work when Bitlocker is not enabled on the machine. You can either use a live CD or Windows PE (From Windows installation media), this guide will use […]
Whilst Sysinternals can be downloaded and ran from the location to which they are extracted to, there is more preferable way to install on a system in which they will be used more frequently. Download Sysinternals from: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ Extract the downloaded zip contents to: C:\Program Files (x86)\SYSINT Extracting to this directory is useful for white-listing Run […]
You may want to remove the server version from your HTTP response for security reasons, there are a couple ways you can go about this depending on how the header is being handled. Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0 If you are seeing the Server header Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0 then the header is being managed by HTTP.SYS driver and is not being […]
I had a scenario in which a group of users needed to be added to a distribution group hosted on Exchange online. So I thought Id made a little script which pulls users from the local Active Directory; checks them against the distribution group and if they are not present, adds them. You may want […]
Whilst trying to cleanup and remove older Windows updates to free up space on my WSUS box I ran into the issue of WSUS crashing with the following exception: The WSUS administration console was unable to connect to the WSUS Server Database. Verify that SQL server is running on the WSUS Server. If the problem […]
Whilst trying to figure out issues with a service which uses Windows Internal Database (WID) I came into the issue of actually connecting and managing it… Steps to connect to WID: Download and install Microsoft SQL Server Manager (found here) onto the machine hosting the instance Run Microsoft SQL Server Manager (SSMS) as Administrator (if […]