Exploiting Online
Games:
Cheating massively distributed systems
About Cigital
Disclaimer
Slide 4
Attaining software security
gets harder
Online games are a
bellwether
Slide 7
Online games are big
business
Why pick on World of
Warcraft?
Isn’t this exploit
discussion bad?
The good news and the bad
news
Slide 12
Lawyers
Egregious EULAs
“Guns”
Money
“It’s easier than making
shoes!”
Slide 18
Two kinds of cheating
Botting
MACROs
Slide 22
Process manipulation
Thread hijacking
Thread hijacking
Techniques for cheating
Total conversion and
mod’ing
Advanced game hacking fu
State of the art
Slide 30
Classic arms race
Breaking stuff is important
Slide 33
"Three pillars of
software security"
Software security
touchpoints
Slide 36
darkreading & Justice
League
IEEE Security & Privacy
Magazine + Silver Bullet
Exploiting Online Games:
the book
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