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The popular SSH client program PuTTY has released the latest version of its software that includes security patches for 8 high-severity security vulnerabilities.
PuTTY is one of the most popular and widely used open-source client-side programs that al… Continue reading PuTTY Releases Important Software Update to Patch 8 High-Severity Flaws
I’m using PuttyGen to generate ssh keys for various windows computers. It requires a lot of manual user input, specifically in the form of swirling the mouse around in the window pane. I understand this to be necessary becaus… Continue reading Is PuttyGen secure?
The banking trojan is consistently evolving in hopes of boosting its efficacy. Continue reading Trickbot Malware Goes After Remote Desktop Credentials
What is the maximum size in bits of one SSH-1 key? 4096?
I found some docs where this value is listed and others without limit
When a process runs in Windows, if you pass command line arguments to it, they are visible if the process is running, making the passing of plain-text sensitive data using this method a really bad idea.
How does one prevent … Continue reading How to pass command line arguments to putty without making them visible in powershell / cmd?
In line with this question…if you have a large number of hosts, and a large number of users who service these hosts, how do you set the private keys for these hosts enmasse across the users who connect to them with putty? … Continue reading How do you set private keys in putty enmasse in Windows?
I found a private key which seems to be in the putty private key format.
The key has the following header:
—- BEGIN SSH2 ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY —-
Subject: <sensitive>
Comment: <sensitive>
P2/56wAAA/MAAAA3a…. Continue reading Crack Putty Private Key (PPK)
Aidan Finn explains how the new process for logging into Windows Server and Linux virtual machines works in the Azure Portal.
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I found an article about different ways to collect and pass credentials in powershell. The author states that some of these methods are 100% secure (which is obviously an exaderation) but for purposes of running a short inte… Continue reading Are the interactive methods of credential gathering listed here actually secure, since they dont store the credentials on disk?
In Putty.exe (for Windows) you can run commands using the following format in Powershell or the commandline:
putty.exe -pw <your-password> -l <some-user> -load “<some-predefined-set-oh-commands-called-a-sessio… Continue reading From a security standpoint is there anything wrong with running repetitive putty commands from the command line?