From The Blinking Cursor to The Thinking Machine: A Memoir of Automation

From The Blinking Cursor to The Thinking Machine: A Memoir of Automation

There is a specific kind of silence that only exists in a server room late at night. It isn’t actually quiet—the fans are screaming, the air conditioning is humming like a jet engine, and the hard drives are clicking in a chaotic rhythm. But for those of us who have spent the last two decades in IT, it feels silent

When Money Talks and Machines Mimic: Ransomware, Extortion, and the AI Arms Race in Cybersecurity

When Money Talks and Machines Mimic: Ransomware, Extortion, and the AI Arms Race in Cybersecurity

The landscape of cyber threats has shifted decisively toward financially motivated crime. Extortion and ransomware now drive more than half of attacks with known motivations, as opportunistic criminal groups scale operations with automated tooling and AI. Speed, automation, and deception combine to inflict outsized damage on vulnerable organizations and public services. Why extortion and ransomware dominate Ransomware and extortion target

Port Scanner using PowerShell with Email Notification

Port Scanner using PowerShell with Email Notification

Few days back I was asked to create a script, which will check RDP port status of multiple servers and send the result as an email notification. I have searched for few, but unfortunately there was no ready script for that. I decided to build one using PowerShell, and came out with following script. Hope this script might help you