Want Some Good Hacking Challenges? Try These 8 Websites!

 Ethical hacking is fun if you do it right. How do you right? Well, by learning from some of the best guides in business! Now, hacking is quite the art, so looking for the right resources online to get your daily dose can be quite frustrating as well. After all there are plenty of people giving out wrong or unsubstantial information out there. Challenges form an integral part of learning hacking since practice makes you perfect. As such, we have compiled here a list of 8 websites that offer some good challenges on hacking.



1.Hack This Site

Free, safe and legal training ground for hackers to test and expand their hacking skills.

2.Enigma Group

Have you ever wanted to learn how to hack? Are you more of a hands on learner, than one that can learn from just reading out of a book? Are you interested in developing secure code by understanding how a hacker will attack your application? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then this site is for you.

3.OverTheWire

The wargames offered by the OverTheWire community can help you to learn and practice security concepts in the form of fun-filled games.

4.try2hack

This site provides several security-oriented challenges for your entertainment. It is actually one of the oldest challenge sites still around. The challenges are diverse and get progressively harder.

5.HackerTest

Your own online hacker simulation. With 20 levels that require different skills to get to another step of the game, this new real-life imitation will help you advance your security knowledge.

6.bright-shadows

The main part is a challenge about Programming, JavaScript, PHP, Java, Steganography, and Cryptography (among others). After registration, you have access to the challenges.

7.hackergames

Within you'll find a comprehensive list of hacking and security related challenges, hackits, wargames, tools, and tutorials, along with user reviews.

8.Roothack

Place for computer security related people to experiment with their knowledge, learn new things and hopefully have a good time. The idea is to give information security enthusiasts a place to test new measures of security in a live hacking environment, while at the same time providing a legal place for hackers to attempt to compromise various means of security.

Website intros have been taken from their official pages.