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An introduction to the most useful special and environment variables in Bash

If you're writing a Bash script, you will invariably need to pass values to it—aka arguments or positional parameters. Bash's ...

Windows 11 tip: Open PowerShell or CMD in any folder with one click

As a Windows 11 user, there might be times when you want to execute a Command Prompt action directly in a specific folder, ...
GitHub

A PowerShell Hashing Script

A bug in PowerShell 7.4.0 with the 'Group-Object' cmdlet will throw and error with filenames that contain curly brackets '{' or '}'. This has been fixed with latest ...
CSOonline

How to log and monitor PowerShell activity for suspicious scripts and commands

Attackers are increasingly abusing sanctioned tools to subvert automated defenses. Tracking your Windows fleet’s PowerShell use — especially consultant workstations — can provide early indications of ...
Redmond Magazine

Using Configuration Files to Control PowerShell Scripts, Part 3

Learn how to leverage configuration files to customize PowerShell scripts, including language, formatting and display settings, in this conclusion to a three-part series. In the previous article in ...
Forbes

Shell Wins Appeal Against Landmark Ruling That Ordered It To Slash 45% Of Its Emissions By 2030

A Dutch appeals court on Tuesday ruled in favor of oil giant Shell and overturned a landmark 2021 ruling by a lower court that ordered the company to sharply reduce its carbon emissions by the end of ...
The New York Times

Shell Wins Appeal in Landmark Dutch Climate Case

A lower court had ordered the company to cut emissions by 45 percent by 2030, but the oil giant argued that a single firm should not be hit with arbitrary pollution-reduction requirements. By Stanley ...
Houston Chronicle

Report: Shell will lay off hundreds in workforce, Houston to be impacted

Shell, the major oil and energy company with its U.S. headquarters in Houston, may soon announce it is cutting 20 percent of its upstream workforce, according to a new report. The Houston-based oil ...
Bleeping Computer

ViperSoftX malware covertly runs PowerShell using AutoIT scripting

The latest variants of the ViperSoftX info-stealing malware use the common language runtime (CLR) to load and execute PowerShell commands within AutoIt scripts to evade detection. CLR is a key ...
Bitcoin Magazine

The Great Script Restoration: A Path Forward For Bitcoin

Bitcoin was initially designed with a fully fleshed out scripting language, intended to encompass and support any potential safe use case that users could come up with in the future. As Satoshi ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious PowerShell script pushing malware looks AI-written

A threat actor is using a PowerShell script that was likely created with the help of an artificial intelligence system such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, or Microsoft's CoPilot. The adversary ...