Practice CTF List / Permanant CTF List
Here's a list of some CTF practice sites and tools or CTFs that are long-running. Thanks, RSnake for starting the original that this is based on. If you have any corrections or suggestions, feel free to email ctf at the domain psifertex with a dot com tld.
Live Online Games
Recommended
Whether they're being updated, contain high quality challenges, or just have a lot of depth, these are probably where you want to spend the most time.
- http://pwnable.kr/ (one of the more popular recent wargamming sets of challenges)
- https://picoctf.com/ (Designed for high school students while the event is usually new every year, it's left online and has a great difficulty progression)
- https://microcorruption.com/login (one of the best interfaces, a good difficulty curve and introduction to low-level reverse engineering, specifically on an MSP430)
- http://ctflearn.com/ (a new CTF based learning platform with user-contributed challenges)
- http://reversing.kr/
- http://hax.tor.hu/
- https://w3challs.com/
- https://pwn0.com/
- https://io.netgarage.org/
- http://ringzer0team.com/
- http://www.hellboundhackers.org/
- http://www.overthewire.org/wargames/
- http://counterhack.net/Counter_Hack/Challenges.html
- http://www.hackthissite.org/
- http://vulnhub.com/
- http://ctf.komodosec.com
Others
- https://www.onlinectf.com/challenges/
- https://backdoor.sdslabs.co/
- http://smashthestack.org/wargames.html
- http://hackthecause.info/
- http://bright-shadows.net/
- http://www.mod-x.co.uk/main.php
- http://scanme.nmap.org/
- http://www.hackertest.net/
- http://net-force.nl/
- http://securityoverride.org/ Some good concepts, but "canned" vulnerabilities (string matching on input) will frustrate knowledgable hackers and teach newbies the wrong lessons
Meta
- http://www.wechall.net/sites.php (excellent list of challenge sites)
- http://ctf.forgottensec.com/wiki/ (good CTF wiki, though focused on CCDC)
- http://repo.shell-storm.org/CTF/ (great archive of CTFs)
Webapp Specific
- http://demo.testfire.net/
- http://wocares.com/xsstester.php
- http://crackme.cenzic.com/
- http://test.acunetix.com/
- http://zero.webappsecurity.com/
Forensics Specific
- http://computer-forensics.sans.org/community/challenges
- http://computer-forensics.sans.org/community/challenges
- http://forensicscontest.com/
Recruiting
- https://www.praetorian.com/challenges/pwnable/
- http://rtncyberjobs.com/
- http://0x41414141.com/
Paid Training
Downloadable Offline Games
- http://www.badstore.net/
- http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WebGoat_Project
- http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Owasp_SiteGenerator
- Damn Vulnerable Web App
- Stanford SecureBench
- Stanford SecureBench Micro
- http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/mutillidae-deliberately-vulnerable-php-owasp-top-10
Virtual Machines
- https://pentesterlab.com/exercises/
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/metasploitable/files/Metasploitable2/
- Damn Vulnerable Linux (not currently live? local mirror)
Inactive or Gone
Just around for historical sake, or on the off-chance they come back.
- http://rootcontest.com/
- http://intruded.net/
- https://how2hack.net
- WebMaven (Buggy Bank)
- http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/hacmetravel.htm
- http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/hacmebooks.htm
- http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/hacmecasino.htm
- http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/hacmeshipping.htm
- http://hackme.ntobjectives.com/
- http://testphp.acunetix.com/
- http://testasp.acunetix.com/Default.asp
- http://prequals.nuitduhack.com
- http://www.gat3way.eu/index.php (Russian)
- http://exploit-exercises.com/ (challenges mirrored on vulnhub)
- http://damo.clanteam.com/
- http://p6drad-teel.net/~windo/wargame/
- http://roothack.org/
- http://ha.ckers.org/challenge/
- http://ha.ckers.org/challenge2/
- http://www.dc3.mil/challenge/