Tag: Over the Wire

Review Wargames Over the Wire

URL: http://overthewire.org/wargames/
Career Path: Pentesters, Beginners in Security
Level: All, good for beginners

The wargames are free & fun, I tested two games so far, Bandit and Natas, but there are much more that include also crypto and explotation wargames.

Bandit

From the website:

  • aimed to absolute beginners
  • connection over ssh with given credentials, no registration needed
  • for learning linux commands/hacking
  • in each level you have to find the password for the next level
  • exercides are for example search for the password in hidden files, files with special characters, learning commands
  • Reading the exercise makes absolute sense here 😉

Example:
The password for the next level is stored somewhere on the server and has all of the following properties:* owned by user bandit7* owned by group bandit6* 33 bytes in size

For starting you get your first credentials and then hack on:

http://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/

Natas
Natas is for learning webserver security. You can just start right away and log into the first exercise:

http://natas0.natas.labs.overthewire.org/
  • Read the source code
  • Use a proxy like Burpsuite might be useful
  • starting simple, but you should read a bit about html and http before starting
  • first find tokens in code, files, change cookies and so on

I hope I will have some time to write about the other wargames too.

Hack on!