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Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems (Addison-Wesley Software...
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by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw
Sales Rank: 35398
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Discount: 34 %
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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition July 19, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0132271915
ISBN-13: 978-0132271912
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
darkreading.com, and is frequently quoted in the press. Besides serving as a strategic counselor for top business and IT executives, Gary is on the advisory boards of Fortify Software and Raven White. His dual Ph.D. is in cognitive science and computer science from Indiana University where he serves on the Dean's Advisory Council for the School of Informatics. Gary is an IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors member and produces the monthly Silver Bullet Security Podcast for IEEE Security & Privacy magazine.
Customer Reviews & Comments
As someone who doesn't play online games, I approached this book with more curiosity than a practical need. It's an worthwhile read, although having a background with game terminology would certainly have made it easier to understand. Technical readers will want to skip straight to chapter 5 and read the second half of the book, which includes many detailed explanations of how to manipulate games to your advantage. The focus of the book is on manipulating the client side of the game, with relatively little on server vulnerabilities. There's also not very much guidance to game designers on how to avoid the problems covered in the book. I was pleased that the book covers not only the security issues, but also related topics such as privacy, and the ethical issues for both providers of online games and the hackers who play and subvert the games. Many of the lessons are applicable to any distributed system with thick clients, including not only game software but also business systems. As such, it's worthwhile reading for developers of nearly any distributed system, as it will give a reasonably accurate picture of the lengths that attackers are willing to go to in compromising a distributed system, and the abilities they have to manipulate software without designs or source code.
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