Wargame (hacking)


In hacking, a wargame is a cyber-security challenge and mind sport in which the competitors must exploit or defend a vulnerability in a system or application, or gain or prevent access to a computer system.
A wargame usually involves a capture the flag logic, based on pentesting, semantic URL attacks, knowledge-based authentication, password cracking, reverse engineering of software, code injection, SQL injections, cross-site scripting, exploits, IP address spoofing, forensics, and other hacking techniques.