How to Hack Like a LEGEND: A hacker’s tale breaking into a secretive offshore company book review

Hacking is defined as the unauthorized access to a computer, or an attempt to exploit a computer system or a private network inside a computer. Hackers are those who can manipulate computer systems and network. Again malicious hackers often use your their talents in some destructive activities like stealing data or producing malware. You can protect yourself against hackers after reading this book. So it is an essential read.
Sparc FLOW: A computer security expert who specializes in ethical hacking and has presented his research at international security conferences like Black Hat, DEF CON, Hack In The Box etc. His passion is writing and sharing the insight he gained in the security field and his day job consists mainly of hacking companies and showing them how to fix their security vulnerabilities. He wrote many books to learn people how to hack. Some of his books are: How To Hack Like a Pornstar: A Step By Step Process For Breaking Into A Bank, How to Investigate Like a Rockstar: Live a real crisis to master the secrets of forensic analysis (Hacking the Planet Book 5) How to Hack Like a GOD, Ultimate Guide for being Anonymous: Avoiding prison time for fun and profit (Hacking the Planet Book 4), Ultimate Hacking Challenge: Train on dedicated machines to master the art of hacking (Hacking The Planet Book 3), How to Hack Like a Pornstar, How to Hack Like a LEGEND: A hackers tale breaking into a secretive offshore company (Hacking the Planet Book 7), How to Hack Like a GOD: Master the secrets of Hacking through real-life scenarios, Ultimate Hacking Challenge. As he is the creator of many of the Hacking book we can call him the master of hacking. His website link is here.
How to Hack like a Pornstar: A step by step book for breaking into a BANK is an outstanding book with very detailed information on the potential vulnerabilities modern-day corporations that show you how a criminal would potentially exploit these vulnerabilities, infiltrate a company's network, locate their most critical data, and make off with it without triggering whatever shiny new security tool the company wasted their budget on. This is an interesting, short, step-by-step introduction to how hackers can penetrate organization network and what tools they may use. It focuses on CTFs, AD, PowerShell. This is a must-read book for those who want to know how hackers break into big corporations.
How to Hack Like a GOD: Master the secrets of Hacking through real-life scenarios is quick and to the point book with detail useful information. It gives you the idea of how a hacker may try to get into your network so you can protect yourself against such threats. This book also provides the following:
- Playing with Kerberos
- Bypassing Citrix & Applocker
- Mainframe hacking
- Fileless WMI persistence
- NoSQL injections
- Wiegand protocol
- Exfiltration techniques
- Antivirus evasion tricks
- And much more advanced hacking techniques.
How to Hack Like a Legend: A hacker's tale breaking into a secretive offshore company is a good addition to his series. It covers many more topics to the existing others. This book is available to everyone because all tools and techniques presented are open sources.
This book helps everyone by providing the followings
- Investigators and Pentesters use tools and techniques regularly in assignments.
- Attackers also use them
- Educational purpose information
- Help companies secure their networks against the attacks
- It also helps, investigators assess the evidence collected during an accident
The contents of this book are
- Starting block
- First dive in
- Back to the arena
- Salvation
- Closing thoughts
Sparc FLOW also covers many important topics to show you the right way of hacking like bending but never breaking, pitching a curveball, perfecting the hook, prison break, big brother is watching you, through logs and power, Russian roulette, defeating the machines, perfecting the backdoor, hunting for data, jackpot etc.
Conclusion
Hacking is good if we use it only for good purpose. Technology is blessings for us. It's entirely up to us whether we use that technology in educational purpose or destructive purpose. For example when someone performs any hack attempts or tests without written permission from the owner of the computer system is illegal. This book is all about hacking but it does not promote hacking, software cracking, and privacy. Its goal is to secure your networks, provide support during an accident.