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Locinode is an authorized cybersecurity training range built around isolated, intentionally vulnerable targets. You do not need to already know how a cyber range works. Start with the basics, learn what is in scope, then move into challenges when you are ready.
Choose a target. Follow the evidence. Capture the flag.
// TARGET DIRECTORY
// PLAYER RANKINGS
// RANGE RULE
Locinode challenges are isolated training environments built for legal security practice. Keep testing inside the targets provided by the range.
// TARGET BRIEF
Retrieving the incident briefing.
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Leaving this mission automatically shuts the target down.
// PLAYER HANDBOOK
Everything a player needs to use the range without wondering what a button, lab, rating, or guidance option does.
Open a challenge and press Launch a mission and Locinode starts only the runtime it needs. Web/API missions can start as target-only labs, while workstation-based missions also receive a disposable Kali desktop. Ending the lab destroys the temporary environment.
Your disposable XFCE Kali workstation opens in its own browser tab. Do challenge work inside Kali, including opening assigned target web apps and using target IPs. Kali can reach the isolated challenge network but does not receive normal Internet access. When a mission includes downloadable artifacts such as PCAPs, binaries, scripts, or other files, Locinode stages them directly inside /home/player/Downloads/Locinode-Challenge and provides a Challenge-Files shortcut on the Kali desktop. You do not need to download challenge files to your personal computer and upload them back into Kali.
Off shows only the mission objective. Minimal shows milestone names. Guided explains what to do, the security concept, what evidence to look for, which tools fit, and what success looks like. Training additionally gives command/workflow patterns, the reasoning behind the step, and common mistakes. You can change the level at any time.
When Locinode can verify a milestone, it checks the step automatically and advances to the next one. Factory-generated challenges can define deeper challenge-specific validators instead of asking you to mark steps complete yourself.
The activity log keeps meaningful challenge events, flag attempts, and notes. It is a learning record—not a keystroke recorder. Passwords, clipboard contents, and every terminal command are not collected by this feature.
Hints are optional help when you are stuck. Full walkthroughs belong after completion or an explicit give-up action, so normal challenge play is not turned into a step-by-step answer sheet.
Submit LOCINODE{...} flags from the mission panel. Solves award XP and feed the 1–5 star player skill system. Category performance can be used to recommend an appropriate challenge without forcing a guidance level.
Only systems explicitly assigned by the Locinode challenge are in scope. Do not redirect challenge techniques toward unrelated Internet systems. Targets and player workstations are temporary isolated training environments.
Labs have a time limit. Ending a lab or timing out tears down its workstation, target, overlay disks, credentials, and isolated network. A new attempt receives a clean environment.
Use the Report button for a broken challenge, account issue, or site problem. If a lab fails to start, Locinode keeps the failed startup state visible instead of silently pretending nothing happened.
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// TROPHY CASE
// PLATFORM OPERATIONS
Monitor Locinode health, player activity, live labs, moderation queues, and Factory output.
// COMMUNITY CHANNEL
Talk challenges, trade non-spoiler hints, celebrate captures, and meet the people climbing the board.
// REPORT CENTER
Tell the Locinode admin what went wrong. Reports are stored in the Control Room and can trigger an email alert.
Locinode provides intentionally vulnerable, isolated systems for authorized cybersecurity education. Only targets assigned by Locinode are in scope. Read the public learning guides, then practice against the temporary systems created for your challenge.