How to Hack Like a Legend

Tag along with a master hacker on a truly memorable attack. From reconnaissance to infiltration, you ll experience their every thought, frustration, and strategic decision-making first-hand in this exhilarating narrative journey into a highly defended Windows environment driven by AI.

Step into the shoes of a master hacker and break into an intelligent, highly defensive Windows environment. You ll be infiltrating the suspicious (fictional) offshoring company G & S Trust and their hostile Microsoft stronghold. While the target is fictional, the corporation s vulnerabilities are based on real-life weaknesses in today s advanced Windows defense systems. You ll experience all the thrills, frustrations, dead-ends, and eureka moments of the mission first-hand, while picking up practical, cutting-edge techniques for evading Microsoft s best security systems.
 
The adventure starts with setting up your elite hacking infrastructure complete with virtual Windows system. After some thorough passive recon, you ll craft a sophisticated phishing campaign to steal credentials and gain initial access. Once inside you ll identify the security systems, scrape passwords, plant persistent backdoors, and delve deep into areas you don t belong. Throughout your task you ll get caught, change tack on a tee, dance around defensive monitoring systems, anddisable tools from the inside. Spark Flow s clever insights, witty reasoning, andstealth maneuvers teach you to be patient, persevere, and adapt your skills at the drop of a hat.
 
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Like other titles in the How to Hack series, this book is packed with interesting tricks, ingenious tips, and links to useful resources to give you a fast-paced, hands-on guide to penetrating and bypassing Microsoft security systems.