Multifactor authentication via SMS is vulnerable to bot attacks, potentially leading to high costs from automated account creations. To mitigate risks, it's recommended to disable SMS MFA, implement stronger bot protection, or disable sign-ups. If attacked, quickly identify and delete bot-created accounts using Azure portal and PowerShell scripts to manage user identities.
[HOWTO] Send emails via SMTP in PowerShell
This week, I tested Office 365 SMTP credentials using PowerShell. I created a script that defines sender and receiver email addresses, subject, and message, and sets up an SMTP client with secure credentials. The server is smtp.office365.com, using SSL on port 587 to send the email successfully.
[HOWTO] Get work items between two builds from Azure DevOps services using PowerShell
A few months ago, a colleague at work approached me and asked me about the easiest way to create release notes for a past release in Azure DevOps. Note that the CI/CD process in this case is implemented using Azure DevOps YAML pipelines. There are of course different approaches to solve this challenge. Some of... Continue Reading →
[HOWTO] Convert Image File to SQL data type varbinary using PowerShell
In one of the projects I'm currently working on, I needed to insert a PNG file into a database column of type varbinary. I failed with my first attempts, but thanks to some blog posts and some threads on StackOverflow, I was able to come up with the following solution by assembling some of the... Continue Reading →
