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Book SynopsisDiscover quick and easy ways to make charts, diagrams, illustrations, and UX/UI mockups with end-to-end guidance using hands-on tutorials, tips, and tricks Key Features Get up to speed with vector illustration in no time Explore hotkey charts and tips, with best practices developed over ten years of using Inkscape Learn the fundamentals of vector illustration and efficiently leverage Inkscape's powerful toolset Book DescriptionWith the power and versatility of the Inkscape software, making charts, diagrams, illustrations, and UI mockups with infinite resolution becomes enjoyable. If you’re looking to get up to speed with vector illustration in no time, this comprehensive guide has got your back! Design Made Easy with Inkscape is easy to follow and teaches you everything you need to know to create graphics that you can use and reuse forever, for free! You’ll benefit from the author’s industry experience as you go over the basics of vector illustration, discovering tips and tricks for getting professional graphics done fast by leveraging Inkscape's powerful toolset. This book teaches by example, using a great variety of use cases from icons and logos to illustration, web design, and product design. You’ll learn about hotkeys and take a best-practices approach developed over ten years of using Inkscape as a design tool in production. What’s more, this book also includes links to free graphics resources that you can use in all your projects. Whether you’re a new user or a professional, by the end of this book, you’ll have full understanding of how to use Inkscape and its myriad of excellent features to make stunning graphics for your projects.What you will learn Understand the benefits of vector illustration and the reasons behind choosing Inkscape over other non-free alternatives Navigate the Inkscape setup and workspace to make effective use of the software Explore the wide range of tools from Inkscape to create amazing and infinitely scalable graphics quickly Use real-world scenarios and practice lessons to learn how to create by example Discover tips and tricks to make Inkscape an extension of your creativity Convert photos to vector art and practice with professional design examples as you work with layers, shading, coloring and much more Who this book is forThis book is for aspiring designers, developers, and anyone who wants to leverage the power of Inkscape for vector illustration. No prior knowledge of graphics applications or vector and raster graphics is required. This book simplifies Inkscape for dummies; all you need to know is how to use a mouse and keyboard.Table of ContentsTable of Contents The Inkscape Interface Moving and Styling Shapes Drawing Shapes with the Shape Tools Automatic Shape Alignment in Inkscape Node Editing – Modify Your Shapes with Nodes and Curves Fast Shape Editing with Booleans and Other Path Operations Using the Text in Inkscape Advanced Shading and Coloring Clips and Masks Automation with Clones and Linked Files Organization Using Layers Live Path Effects (LPEs) Filters and Extensions Vectorizing with Trace Bitmap Conclusion

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Book SynopsisEnhance your skill set to pentest against real-world Microsoft infrastructure with hands-on exercises and by following attack/detect guidelines with OpSec considerations Key Features Find out how to attack real-life Microsoft infrastructure Discover how to detect adversary activities and remediate your environment Apply the knowledge you’ve gained by working on hands-on exercises Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionThis book teaches you the tactics and techniques used to attack a Windows-based environment, along with showing you how to detect malicious activities and remediate misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. You’ll begin by deploying your lab, where every technique can be replicated. The chapters help you master every step of the attack kill chain and put new knowledge into practice. You’ll discover how to evade defense of common built-in security mechanisms, such as AMSI, AppLocker, and Sysmon; perform reconnaissance and discovery activities in the domain environment by using common protocols and tools; and harvest domain-wide credentials. You’ll also learn how to move laterally by blending into the environment’s traffic to stay under radar, escalate privileges inside the domain and across the forest, and achieve persistence at the domain level and on the domain controller. Every chapter discusses OpSec considerations for each technique, and you’ll apply this kill chain to perform the security assessment of other Microsoft products and services, such as Exchange, SQL Server, and SCCM. By the end of this book, you'll be able to perform a full-fledged security assessment of the Microsoft environment, detect malicious activity in your network, and guide IT engineers on remediation steps to improve the security posture of the company.What you will learn Understand and adopt the Microsoft infrastructure kill chain methodology Attack Windows services, such as Active Directory, Exchange, WSUS, SCCM, AD CS, and SQL Server Disappear from the defender's eyesight by tampering with defensive capabilities Upskill yourself in offensive OpSec to stay under the radar Find out how to detect adversary activities in your Windows environment Get to grips with the steps needed to remediate misconfigurations Prepare yourself for real-life scenarios by getting hands-on experience with exercises Who this book is forThis book is for pentesters and red teamers, security and IT engineers, as well as blue teamers and incident responders interested in Windows infrastructure security. The book is packed with practical examples, tooling, and attack-defense guidelines to help you assess and improve the security of your real-life environments. To get the most out of this book, you should have basic knowledge of Windows services and Active Directory.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Getting the Lab Ready and Attacking Exchange Server Defense Evasion Domain Reconnaissance and Discovery Credential Access in Domain Lateral Movement in Domain and Across Forests Domain Privilege Escalation Persistence on Domain Level Abusing Active Directory Certificate Services Compromising Microsoft SQL Server Taking over WSUS and SCCM

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Book SynopsisOver 90 recipes to help you develop widgets, forms, layouts, charts, and much more using the latest features of Python 3Key Features Use object-oriented programming to develop impressive GUIs in Python Create interesting charts to visually represent data using Matplotlib Develop GUIs with the latest versions of tkinter, PyQt5, and wxPython frameworks Book DescriptionPython is a multi-domain, interpreted programming language that is easy to learn and implement. With its wide support for frameworks to develop GUIs, you can build interactive and beautiful GUI-based applications easily using Python. This third edition of Python GUI Programming Cookbook follows a task-based approach to help you create effective GUIs with the smallest amount of code. Every recipe in this book builds upon the last to create an entire, real-life GUI application. These recipes also help you solve problems that you might encounter while developing GUIs. This book mainly focuses on using Python’s built-in tkinter GUI framework. You'll learn how to create GUIs in Python using simple programming styles and object-oriented programming (OOP). As you add more widgets and expand your GUI, you will learn how to connect to networks, databases, and graphical libraries that greatly enhance the functionality of your GUI. You’ll also learn how to use threading to ensure that your GUI doesn't become unresponsive. Toward the end, you’ll learn about the versatile PyQt GUI framework, which comes along with its own visual editor that allows you to design GUIs using drag and drop features. By the end of the book, you’ll be an expert in designing Python GUIs and be able to develop a variety of GUI applications with ease.What you will learn Create amazing GUIs with Python's built-in tkinter module Customize GUIs using layout managers to arrange GUI widgets Advance from the typical waterfall coding style to an OOP style using Python Develop beautiful charts using the free Matplotlib Python module Use threading in a networked environment to make GUIs responsive Discover ways to connect GUIs to a MySQL database Understand how unit tests can be created and internationalize GUI Delve into the world of GUI creation using PyQt5 Who this book is forIf you’re a programmer or developer looking to enhance your Python skills by writing powerful GUI applications, this book is for you. Familiarity with the Python programming language is necessary to get the most out of the book.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Creating the GUI form and adding widgets Layout management Look and feel customization Data and classes Matplotlib charts Threads and networking Storing data in our mysql database via our GUI Internationalization and testing Extending our GUI with the wxpython library Building GUI’s with PyQt5 Best practices

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