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wargame

n. (alternative spelling of war game English)

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Wargame (video games)

Wargames are a subgenre of strategy video games that emphasize strategic or tactical warfare on a map, as well as historical (or near-historical) accuracy.

Wargame (hacking)

In hacking, a wargame (or war game) 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 (mostly JavaScript, Adobe Flash, and assembly language), code injection, SQL injections, cross-site scripting, exploits, IP address spoofing, and other hacking techniques.

Usage examples of "wargame".

The names in the wargame were generic, and personal knowledge of the players didn't matter, since they were not supposed to be real people.

We found it sticking in the hull of a burned-out tank on the edge of the wargame area,” Craig told him.

There wasn’t an army on earth that could stand against what was here in the castle and out in the wargame area.

She recognized the type from her own student days, when she’d hung around the wargames club, where it was okay for a woman to be smart and not pretty.

Jefferson's home-defense fighters scream down from the Damisi Mountains, flying nap-of-the-earth in an eerie recreation of the wargames underway when the Deng fleet broke into Jeffersonian space.

She'd had only the one, brief glimpse of it, engaged in wargames against the air force, but that glimpse had made a deep impression.

You're down for a crash course in japanese - and you're also going to be wargaming in the Simulation Room.

From New Year's Day through spring and summer, he had been working below ground, wargaming in the Simulation Room, and learning japanese in the language lab.

This list of capabilities would be useful to focus (1) scarce R&D dollars to fill in the holes with technology, (2) intelligence and surveillance collection priorities, (3) innovative thought to further develop the concept (War College papers and Wargaming series), and (4) development of CINC plans and requirements to meet these capabilities.

Girls didn't go in much for the wargames, no matter what the women's libbers might claim.