Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Pub Date: July 09, 2007
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-227191-5
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-227191-2
Pages: 384
Slots: 1.0

If you are a gamer, a game developer, a software security professional, 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 Exploiting Software, Exploiting Online Games takes a frank look at controversial security issues surrounding MMORPGs, such as World of Warcraft™ and Second Life®. This no-holds-barred book comes fully loaded with code examples, debuggers, bots, and hacks.

This book covers

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 personal 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 world's foremost software security experts, this book takes a close look at 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.

Table of Contents:

     Copyright
     Advance Praise for Exploiting Online Games
     Addison-Wesley Software Security Series
     Foreword
     Preface
     Acknowledgments
     About the Authors
       Chapter 1.  Why Games?
        Online Games Worldwide
        The Lure of Cheating in MMORPGs
        Games Are Software, Too
        Hacking Games
        The Big Lesson: Software as Achilles' Heel
       Chapter 2.  Game Hacking 101
        Defeating Piracy by Going Online
        Or Not . . .
        Tricks and Techniques for Cheating
        The Bot Parade
        Lurking (Data Siphoning)
        Tooling Up
        Countermeasures
       Chapter 3.  Money
        How Game Companies Make Money
        Virtual Worlds: Game Economics and Economies
        Criminal Activity
       Chapter 4.  Enter the Lawyers
        Legality
        Fair Use and Copyright Law
        The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
        The End User License Agreement
        The Terms of Use
        Stealing Software versus Game Hacking
       Chapter 5.  Infested with Bugs
        Time and State Bugs in Games
        Pathing Bugs in Games
        Altering the User Interface
        Modifying Client-Side Game Data
        Monitoring Drops and Respawns
        Just Show Up
        And in Conclusion
       Chapter 6.  Hacking Game Clients
        Malicious Software Testing (Enter the Attacker)
        Countermeasures against Reverse Engineering
        Data, Data, Everywhere
        Getting All Around the Game
        Going Over the Game: Controlling the User Interface
        Getting In the Game: Manipulating Game Objects
        Getting Under the Game: Manipulating Rendering Information
        Standing Way Outside the Game: Manipulating Network Packets
        The Ultimate in Stealth: Taking Client Manipulation to the Kernel
        Clients Make Great Targets
       Chapter 7.  Building a Bot
        Bot Design Fundamentals
        Bot as Debugger
        The Wowzer Botting Engine
        Advanced Bot Topics
        Bots for Everyone
       Chapter 8.  Reversing
        Taking Games Apart
        Code Patterns in Assembly
        Self-Modifying Code and Packing
        Reversing Concluded
       Chapter 9.  Advanced Game Hacking Fu
        Conversions and Modding
        Media File Formats
        Emulation Servers (Private Servers)
        Legal Tangles
       Chapter 10.  Software Security Über Alles
        Building Security In for Game Developers
        Security for Everyday Gamers
        Exploiting Online Games

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