Exploiting Online Games How to Break Multi-user Computer Games

If you are a gamer, a game developer, a software security person or an interested bystander, this book exposes the inner workings of online game security for all to see. From the authors of the best selling book Exploiting Software, Exploiting Online Games frankly describes controversial security issues surrounding MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft. This no-holds-barred book comes fully loaded with code examples, debuggers, bots, and hacks. In this book you will learn Why online games are a harbinger of software security issues to come How millions of gamers have created billion dollar virtual economies How game companies invade your privacy Why some gamers cheat Techniques for breaking online game security How to build a bot to play a game for you Methods for total conversion and advanced mods Written by the foremost software security experts in the world, this book discusses and describes security problems associated with advanced massively distributed software. With hundreds of thousands of interacting users, today's online games are a bellwether of modern software. The kinds of attack and defense techniques described in Exploiting Online Games are tomorrow's security techniques on display today.Hoglund, Greg is the author of 'Exploiting Online Games How to Break Multi-user Computer Games', published 2007 under ISBN 9780132271912 and ISBN 0132271915.