Title :
Walking on Water: A Cheating Case Study
Author :
Portnoy, Aaron ; Santiago, Ali Rizvi
Abstract :
Online games offer opportunities for malicious users with the necessary skills to turn a profit. Many game developers acknowledge and address these risks, but new games still use technologies whose security implications have yet to be publicly disclosed.
Keywords :
computer games; risk analysis; security of data; Web site; data security; online game; risk analysis; Anti-freeze; Graphics; Humans; Information security; Legged locomotion; Logic; Marine vehicles; Network servers; Physics; Privacy; Online gaming; dynamic languages; python; reverse engineering; software engineering;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSP.2009.82