Tutorial: Wargames: Part 3 -- LONG!

[phishphreek]

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!

[MrLinus]

Sure on both accounts. I'll probably do it this weekend or early this week.

[Kilawa]

Awesome! thank you!

[exarius]

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!

[Talith]

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!

[Mcvay]

ahh great MsMittens, would love to see this stuff in a PDF. Would make it nicer to print

[skiddieleet]

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-

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...

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)

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.