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?
As I said it was a long time ago and I did not really play it myself - so you are probably right if you say it was not really CLI... but I am sure it was Uplink (and thanks for the reference to the other game)
Wargames under a certain definition involve players playing against each other. Hardening their own system and attacking their opponent's. Since these games don't involve defending your own machine, under that definition they don't qualify.
However, they're still super useful and when anyone tells me they're interested in trying hacking I point them there first.
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.)
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).
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Can someone help me remember the actual name? And is this still available somehow?
https://introversion.co.uk/introversion/#games
It's on GOG, https://www.gog.com/game/uplink_hacker_elite , probably among some other options.
I think originally it ran on Linux too, but I think it's this one.
Ran on Linux sounds familiar. It says
Works on: Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10), Mac OS X (10.6.8) and Linux (Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04)
on the GOG page, so there's probably a good chance that's still the case.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/uplink-os
but it only works with the windows version of the game
http://store.steampowered.com/app/70100/Hacker_Evolution/
credentials: playing wargames for 30 years. have designed wargames and met famous wargame designers
However, they're still super useful and when anyone tells me they're interested in trying hacking I point them there first.
http://www.consimworld.com
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.)