ONLINE Game Security: A Case Study of an MMO Strategy Game

Abstract

Just as the Internet and the digital age are transforming life practices in every direction, the habits of playing games are taking its dominance with pervasive addiction while security concerns are alarming. Different terms are being used for the security issues of games in the literature like cheat, exploit, hack, attack. Massively multiplayer online role-playing games are joining the ranks of software popular enough to be bombarded by attacks. In this study, we explore the security issues of an online game and its protection measures on a sample game. We will use a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) strategy game that we have been developing as our case study, which utilizes different aspects of MMO concept that contains many security issues. We tried to point out the vulnerable points of MMO games and provide sufficient solutions to these problems by using an MMO strategy game as in our case study.

Keywords

• Online Games
• Game Security
• Risks and Threats
• Cyber Game

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