r/HowToHack

79K archived posts · Sep 2012 – Sep 2026

Your Open Hacker Community

r/HowToHack

Welcome! This is your open hacker community designed to help you on the journey from neophyte to veteran in the world of underground skillsets. Ask, Answer, Learn. Visit us on discord https://discord.gg/ep2uKUG

Created Sep 3, 2012

492KMembers (last snapshot)

79KArchived posts

HowToHack Community

3rd Party Links

3rd Party Challenges

https://www.vulnhub.com/ - Boot2Roots and walkthroughs.
https://www.root-me.org/ - Interactive privilege escalation with browser-based bash shells (and much more).
http://www.itsecgames.com/
http://www.dvwa.co.uk/ - Damn Vulnerable Web Application.
https://hackgame.chaurocks.com/ - Learn-as-you-go web exploitation game made by a redditor.
https://www.hackthissite.org/ - Web exploitation.
https://www.hackthis.co.uk/
http://overthewire.org/wargames/ - Privilege escalation over SSH, web exploitation.
https://ctftime.org/ - See upcoming events and writeups from past CTFs.

Related Subreddits:

Security Advisories

CVE, CWE, NVD, WVE

Download Linux

http://iso.linuxquestions.org/

We teach you how to do it, use it at your own risk.

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