OverTheWire: Wargames to learn and practice security concepts

These reminded me of a ... "computer game" distributed on a CD (yep, that's at least 15 ago) where you would play a hacker accessing everything through a cli interface (it was fairly realistic, or so I remember it: never played but bought a copy as gift for a friend).

You would get "contracts" being asked to penetrate increasingly sophisticated companies - and you started putting together a worrying picture about some sort of conspiracy.

Can someone help me remember the actual name? And is this still available somehow?

Over The Wire challenges are awesome. Bandit is very educational and easy to start. Others are quite a bit more challenging.

OverTheWire is great practice! Bandit starts off easy, but they go up in difficulty quickly.

I'm looking to create some similar lessons + challenges geared toward appsec for developers - there's a sample lab available at https://labs.hunter2.com/demo and I'd welcome any feedback on the approach. (The demo is more a Codecademy-like lesson, but I plan to add some CTF-style challenges as well.)

For those who love playing wargames there's a website that regroups most (if not all) of them with scores. https://www.wechall.net/

Do anyone remember hackerslab.org hosted in Korea? It would be so cool if someone had the source code for that one or if it could be revived although it was running on a very old platform (Linux 2.2 iirc).

I highly recommend these wargames. I have been giving this link to folks I've mentored for many years and it's been nothing but beneficial.

I am probably going to get a lot of hate for this, but, do these games work over windows?

I must say I have found this rather entertaining.

those aren't wargames

credentials: playing wargames for 30 years. have designed wargames and met famous wargame designers