Webantix

I have known about a lot of different war game sites and have noticed that a lot of them have started to drop off the interweb radar. I wanted to start a link page to all of the known war games or hacker challenges.

These War games/Hacking Simulators are a great training ground for “noob” hackers and security professionals to learn the art of hacking without getting in trouble with the suits. Remember always have written permission when hacking systems that do not belong to you.

I have sorted them in alphabetical order and in three sections.  Offline Games(Live CD/DVD’s, VM’s or software) Online Games and Archived which are sites that seem to either be dead or not maintained. I have not played all of the games yet and do not put one site above another one. The one thing I have seen though is the offline challenges teach you more regarding every day tools that you would use in penetration tests. If there are any sites that have broken links please let me know and I will add them to the Archived section. The links purposely only point to the sites home page as the specific games pages seem to move around a bit.

Offline (CD/DVD’s VM’s or Software)

-De-Ice 1.100    – http://heorot.net/
-De-Ice 1.110    – http://heorot.net/
-De-Ice 1.200    – http://heorot.net/
-DVL    – http://www.damnvulnerablelinux.org/
-DVWA – http://www.dvwa.co.uk/
-Hackerdemia    – http://heorot.net/
-Hacme group    – http://www.foundstone.com/
-Moth    – http://www.bonsai-sec.com/
-Mutillidae - http://www.irongeek.com/
-pwnOS    – http://heorot.net/
-WebGoat    – http://www.owasp.org/

Online Games

Bright Shadows - http://www.bright-shadows.net/
Crackmes.de - http://crackmes.de/
Dare your Mind - http://www.dareyourmind.net/
Hack Quest - http://www.hackquest.de/
Hack This - http://www.hackthis.co.uk/
hack this site - http://www.hackthissite.org/
Hacker.org - http://www.hacker.org/
hax.tor - http://hax.tor.hu/
Hell Bound Hackers - http://www.hellboundhackers.org/
Honeynet - http://www.honeynet.org/
IHackedThisBox - http://challenges.ihtb.org/
intruded.net - http://www.intruded.net/
Learn Security Online - http://www.learnsecurityonline.com/
Mod-X - http://www.mod-x.co.uk/
Pull the Plug – http://semtex.labs.pulltheplug.org/
Roothack – http://roothack.org/
try2hack.nl - http://www.try2hack.nl/
Try This One - http://www.trythis0ne.com/
Zero Identity - http://www.zeroidentity.org/

Archived

I have only added the text links for these as some links go no where and others go to some suspicious sites.

Arcanum - http://www.conclave.co.nz/ – Splash page no hack games mentioned.
Area 6 - http://www.area-6.net/ – Domain Parked Search Portal
Blind Dice - http://www.blind-dice.com/ – Timed out
CyberArmy - http://www.cyberarmy.com/ No name found
hack.ae - http://www.hack.ae/ – No name found
Hacker Games - http://hackergames.net/ – Does not seem to be updated since 2003 but huge help with this list
Hackerslab - http://www.hackerslab.org – Up but unable to register and a lot of error pages.
Hackits - http://www.hackits.de/
Hybrid of Lame Industries – http://www.lameindustries.org/ – Splash page no hack games mentioned
Practicalotp - http://www.practicalotp.com/ -
Root this box - http://www.rootthisbox.org/ – Currently offline but reports its coming back?
Root Wars - http://www.rootwars.org/ – Domain Name Parked
Slyfx - http://www.slyfx.com/ – Domain Parked with Dreamhosts
Super Duper Hacking Challange - http://www.geocities.com/famousbruce/hackpage.html
The Pyramid - http://lightning.prohosting.com/~thegame/ – Site Removed
War Industries - http://www.warindustries.com/

sites that have helped create this list.

http://www.hackerslab.org/
http://www.happyhacker.org/
http://www.puremango.co.uk
http://neworder.box.sk/

If I have missed any old or new please let me know as I want to list every site. Even if this site has been down for 5 years I still want to know about it for historical reasons.