MsM:
Small request: When you have completed your series, would you be so kind as to gather them all together and create one PDF document?
I would like to use this for starting some wargames at my school.
With your permission, of course.
Thanks!
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MsM:
Small request: When you have completed your series, would you be so kind as to gather them all together and create one PDF document?
I would like to use this for starting some wargames at my school.
With your permission, of course.
Thanks!
Sure on both accounts. I'll probably do it this weekend or early this week.
Awesome! thank you!
Absolutely fantastic !
I have been reading into wargames lately and this set of tut's is BY FAR the best overall that I have found.
Maybe you should contact O'Reilly and see if they'll let you write this as a book!
"Wargames in a Nutshell" by MsMittens
Thanks so much for the time you spent making these... especially while you are sick!
:D
That's a great idea guys, making wargames, so we can put this information into practice would be a great idea, and to re-iterate what everyone said, awesome job MsM! This will surely help on my way to becoming an admin! :)
ahh great MsMittens, would love to see this stuff in a PDF. Would make it nicer to print :)
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We should start a huge wargame at AO that goes for about a month per round or something. I think that would be really sweat.
-Cheers-
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As for setting Wargames at AO... I think she mentioned on the first tutorial if Wargames take place on a wide scale [not LAN] it's harder to monitor for the rules to be respected and whatnot [although, from the attacker's PoV, there shouldn't be any rules should there? :P]. but, nonetheless, I'd be glad if someone took upon such an initiative... maybe a testbox of AO that people should try and break into? nothing fancy... I mean, not like a 'large' challenge [see HackersLab] but something...
I have an extra box. I might be willing to put it up for attack. Of course I would need some major pm support to set it up. We would have to have a set of rules, and I would configure it with agreed upon services and software. I am also getting 8 different distros of linux for christmas, so if this is done, we could have a new wargame once a month or something and I would wipe the drive and put a new distro on it. Then we would have a "full disclosure" thread where everyone would post what they have tried and what they have dug up in their research. If I do this, I will need some major help setting it up, I guess that is how the "full disclosure" thread could start, first I will set it up posting along the way and asking questions about configurations, then the games would begin. I'm probably posting this for nothing, but if this does happen, I think MsM could be the one to help me set up the machine, or whoever wants to. Please consider this for those who are doubtful, it should be fun.Quote:
My Favorite type of wargame is your basic espionage one...
The defender saves a "top secret" file somewhere on their system, and puts whatever defenses they can on it. The file contains a single phrase... the attacker wins if they can tell the defender the phrase, the defender wins if either:
a) the time for the game expires (they've successfully kept the file secure)
b) They trace the attacker (if the attacker gets the phrase but is traced, the defender wins.).
-Extra points go to the attacker if they can retrieve the information without the defender knowing about it, and for the ammount of time left before the challenge is over.
-Extra points go to the defender for every service they have running from the box that could be a security problem(ftp, web server, wireless LAN, etc).
-The defender must be able to access the information somehow from a remote machine.
-The attacker is not allowed to trash the system (The worst violation of this I've ever seen was when someone managed to flash their opponent's BIOS to a game of PONG)