Learn Cyber Security Through Hands-On Hacking Labs

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Hands-on courses, hacking labs, and a free spy-thriller game!

Courses

From beginner to technical expert — structured courses with hands-on labs.

A full curriculum, not just a collection of challenges. Every lab is mapped to the Cyber Security Body of Knowledge (CyBOK) — start at the fundamentals or jump straight to your specialism.

Hands-on hacking labs in real virtual machine environments build a verifiable skills profile.

Beginner to expert
Real VMs
CyBOK mapped
CTF challenges

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Featured Free Labs

Backups lab

Incident Response and Investigation

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Games

SAFETYNET:
Licence to Hack

The flagship Hacktivity Game — Mission 1 available now

The only game where the hacking is real in a world that reacts to what you do.

  • ▶ Real hacking on real VMs — Kali Linux, full desktop, runs entirely in your browser
  • ▶ Escape room puzzles — lockpicking, RFID cloning, decoded messages, chained with the hacking
  • ▶ Spy narrative — NPCs, choices with consequences

Mission 1 is free — sign up to a game to start.

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Backups lab

Incident Response and Investigation

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SAFETYNET: Licence to Hack

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Cyber Aware

Play the attacker. Then stop the attack.

Security awareness training people actually want to finish. Each episode is a short game: you run a real scam from the attacker's side, then switch roles and catch it when it lands in your own inbox, phone or office.

Seeing how a trick is built makes it far easier to spot. Your choices change what happens, mistakes are safe to make, and a quick check before and after each course shows what changed. Courses take about an hour and run in the browser, with nothing to install.

Cyber Aware

What it covers

Phishing and fake sign-in pages, invoice and payment fraud, phone and in-person social engineering, AI scams and cloned voices, passwords and account takeover, handling data, and working safely away from the office. Incident simulations take a team through a breach from the first alert to the last decision.

Who it's for

Everyone at work, from new starters to the board, with courses that suit finance, HR, help desks and staff on the move. Organisations can enrol their people and follow their progress.

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  • Hacktivity Cyber Security Labs is a cornerstone of the NCSC accredited cyber security degrees at LBU
  • Used by ~300 students every week
  • All LBU cyber security modules are hosted on Hacktivity, and incorporate hands-on labs and marks from CTF challenges
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