I've pointed high school students through grad students at this web site and they've always enjoyed it and learned a lot:
https://www.hackthissite.org/ This book is the best for beginners, in my opinion: https://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Ethical-Hackers-Handbook-Fourth/dp/0071832386 Someone already sent a link to Bratus, not sure if someone already sent a link to SEED or not (I read the digest version of this list): http://www.cis.syr.edu/~wedu/seed/ Werewolves is what we use to teach high school students in the summer: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~crandall/3GSE2014.pdf "A Case Study in Helping Students to Covertly Eat Their Classmates" http://www.cs.unm.edu/~crandall/CSET12.pdf "Students Who Don't Understand Information Flow Should be Eaten: An Experience Paper" The theme of the game is, if you're not cheating you're not trying. Unfortunately, our web site is currently down and the code is not well-maintained, so send an email if interested. Lastly, to help them understand public key crypto I do a food coloring version of this for high school students.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBfamv-_do It's one of those demos that is also effective for middle school through grad school, I've found. The Art of the Problem and others have some really good videos on YouTube about cybersecurity concepts. Jed -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
