Project Resources | Bound Spirit

Problem Domain Book

Christopher Hadnagy, Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking, 2018.
- Bound Spirit involves basic cybersecurity principles in the gameplay, aiming to introduce players to high level cybersecurity concepts like social engineering and the basics of cryptography in a fun way. This book covers the first of these concepts and discusses the extent of social engineering. This helps to enlighten players to cyber dangers that are not all necessarily just programming and scripts, making this a good problem domain book for our project.

OWASP is a nonprofit organization that provides widely used resources for improving software and web security. These resources help to model real-world security weaknesses like poor authentication, insecure cryptography, and human driven exploits, which are all topics incorporated within Bound Spirit. OWASP's vulnerability frameworks can be translated into the puzzles of our game and more realistically highlight overlooked cybersecurity threats.

TryHackMe is an interactive cybersecurity learning platform that teaches concepts such as OSINT, cryptography, and social engineering through handson challenges. Its puzzle based structure aligns with the goals of Bound Spirit.

This paper explores how Capture the Flag competitions help to further and enhance cybersecurity education. The principles of Capture the Flags are similar to the ideas we are applying to Bound Spirit.

This paper presents a Unity-based cybersecurity escape room designed to improve user engagement and learning through gamification. It demonstrates how interactive environments and game mechanics can enhance cybersecurity awareness and knowledge retention. These ideas closely align with Bound Spirit, which also uses puzzle based gameplay to introduce cybersecurity concepts in an engaging and narrative driven way.

Krebs on Security provides many articles on modern cyber threats, and is a good website to look at to keep up to date with cyber threats and measures, since cybersecurity is always evolving.

The Hacker News covers recent vulnerabilities, cyber attacks, and security research from around the world. These updates highlight how cybersecurity is constantly evolving, which aligns with the educational goals of our project.