Security Lab vs HackStack

-- ENTER THE TERMINAL. INVESTIGATE. RESPOND. MASTER THE SYSTEM. -- Step into the role of a cybersecurity operator in Security Lab: Terminal -> an immersive, educational cybersecurity simulation where your investigations, decisions and technical skills shape your progress. Explore a fictional digital world filled with security incidents, suspicious activity, interconnected systems and challenging operations. Every command, host and scenario runs entirely inside a safe simulation. -- INVESTIGATE BEYOND THE ALERT -- Discover ECHO PROTOCOL, a new investigation experience built around conflicting evidence, hidden causes and analytical decision-making. Examine case files, compare clues, test hypotheses and uncover what really happened. With three investigations and multiple evidence variations, the most obvious explanation is not always the correct one. -- COMMAND YOUR OWN SECURITY OPERATIONS -- Take control of a growing cybersecurity environment through interconnected gameplay systems: - Interactive Terminal: Use simulated security commands to scan hosts, investigate services, analyse threats and complete operations. - Mission Center: Progress through story missions, contracts and structured training objectives. - ECHO PROTOCOL: Investigate suspicious events, correlate evidence and determine the truth. - BLACKOUT Crisis Operations: Manage evolving security crises, allocate resources and make difficult operational decisions. - SOC Live: Experience timed defensive shifts, prioritise alerts and respond to simulated incidents. - Threat Intelligence: Analyse indicators, investigate suspicious activity and connect related threats. - Digital Forensics & Malware Lab: Examine synthetic evidence, reconstruct incidents and analyse simulated malware samples. - Netmap & Living World: Explore a connected network and monitor a changing security environment. - Operations Command: Bring intelligence, operational readiness and defensive decisions together. -- TRAIN. IMPROVE. SPECIALISE. -- Develop your operator through a connected progression system. Unlock skills, upgrade your workstation, earn achievements and take on increasingly complex scenarios. Challenge Protocol offers daily and weekly challenges, specialist exercises, personal-best tracking and mastery progression. -- MAKE THE TERMINAL YOUR OWN -- Personalise your console with independent text and background colours, custom background options, adjustable transparency and optional terminal effects. An expanded Operator Guide helps you learn the systems at your own pace. -- BUILT FOR A SAFE LEARNING EXPERIENCE -- Security Lab: Terminal is a fictional cybersecurity training game, not a real intrusion or network exploitation tool. All networks, commands, incidents and malware samples are simulated. No real external systems are targeted. Play the core single-player experience without an account. Optional Game Center integration supports achievements and competitive features. -- YOUR NEXT OPERATION STARTS HERE. -- Enter the terminal. Follow the evidence. Make your decisions count.

Build your hacking empire from nothing. HackStack is an idle clicker set in a cybersecurity underworld. You tap to run exploits, deploy tools that earn while you sleep, research new tech, and build out your rig. It's a cyberpunk parody of the infosec world with real hacking history baked into every corner. EXECUTE exploits to earn CREDS, your in-game currency. Start with a humble Port Scanner. End up running Neural Exploits and a Digital Consciousness. Every tool you deploy keeps earning even when you close the app. RESEARCH 24 tools across 6 categories. Each one comes with an intel card covering real cybersecurity history and lore. 177 cards to find. BUILD YOUR RIG. Upgrade your CPU, RAM, GPU, Storage, Cooling, and PSU. Better hardware means faster research and access to higher-tier tools. EARN CERTIFICATIONS across three branches: Offensive, Defensive, and Management. 23 certs, 69 tiers. They shape how you play and what you can unlock. SURVIVE BREACHES. Phishing attacks, ransomware, DDoS, insider threats. They show up unannounced, they mess with your income, and you need to deal with them fast. COMPLETE DAILY OPS for XP. Quick wins, standard missions, and challenge-tier operations. Something different every day. PRESTIGE when you're ready. Wipe your progress, earn Shadow Creds, buy permanent upgrades, and come back stronger. Free to play. No pay-to-win. Made by one developer who thought Cookie Clicker needed more firmware implants.