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Online Hacking Sandbox (aka WarGames)
http://www.overthewire.org/wargames/
A variety of exercises to test your 31337 sk1llz. I recommend starting with NATAS (on the left bar). It’s 17 levels of web-based (no SSH, no compiling, no buffer overflows) offensive fun to get started.