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Author:   Greg Hoglund ,  Gary McGraw
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Addison Wesley
Dimensions:   Width: 17.90cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9780132271912

ISBN 10:   0132271915
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   19 July 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword xvii Preface xxi Why Are We Doing This? xxii Where Do We Draw the Line? xxiii What's in the Book? xxiv The Software Security Series xxvi Contacting the Authors xxvii Acknowledgments xxix Greg's Acknowledgments xxix Gary's Acknowledgments xxix About the Authors xxxiii Chapter 1: Why Games? 3 Online Games Worldwide 5 The Lure of Cheating in MMORPGs 7 Games Are Software, Too 9 Hacking Games 12 The Big Lesson: Software as Achilles' Heel 17 Chapter 2: Game Hacking 101 19 Defeating Piracy by Going Online 20 Or Not . . . 20 Tricks and Techniques for Cheating 21 The Bot Parade 31 Lurking (Data Siphoning) 36 Tooling Up 39 Countermeasures 46 Chapter 3: Money 65 How Game Companies Make Money 65 Virtual Worlds: Game Economics and Economies 67 Criminal Activity 73 Chapter 4: Enter the Lawyers 75 Legality 75 Fair Use and Copyright Law 77 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act 78 The End User License Agreement 79 The Terms of Use 88 Stealing Software versus Game Hacking 89 Chapter 5: Infested with Bugs 93 Time and State Bugs in Games 95 Pathing Bugs in Games 104 Altering the User Interface 107 Modifying Client-Side Game Data 108 Monitoring Drops and Respawns 109 Just Show Up 111 And in Conclusion 111 Chapter 6: Hacking Game Clients 113 Malicious Software Testing (Enter the Attacker) 113 Countermeasures against Reverse Engineering 122 Data, Data, Everywhere 126 Getting All Around the Game 132 Going Over the Game: Controlling the User Interface 132 Getting In the Game: Manipulating Game Objects 139 Getting Under the Game: Manipulating Rendering Information 164 Standing Way Outside the Game: Manipulating Network Packets 179 The Ultimate in Stealth: Taking Client Manipulation to the Kernel 180 Clients Make Great Targets 183 Chapter 7: Building a Bot 185 Bot Design Fundamentals 186 Bot as Debugger 208 The Wowzer Botting Engine 224 Advanced Bot Topics 228 Bots for Everyone 244 Chapter 8: Reversing 247 Taking Games Apart 248 Code Patterns in Assembly 264 Self-Modifying Code and Packing 290 Reversing Concluded 291 Chapter 9: Advanced Game Hacking Fu 293 Conversions and Modding 293 Media File Formats 314 Emulation Servers (Private Servers) 315 Legal Tangles 319 Chapter 10: Software Security UEber Alles 321 Building Security In for Game Developers 322 Security for Everyday Gamers 327 Exploiting Online Games 328 Index 331

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Greg Hoglund has been involved with software security for many years, specializing in Windows rootkits and vulnerability exploitation. He founded the website www.rootkit.com, and has coauthored several books on software security (Exploiting Software: How to Break Code and Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel, both from Addison-Wesley). Greg is a long-time game hacker and spends much of his free time reverse engineering and tooling exploits for new games. Professionally, Greg offers in-depth training on rootkit development and software exploits. He is currently CEO of HBGary, Inc. (www.hbgary.com), building a world-class product for software reverse engineering and digital forensics. Gary McGraw is the CTO of Cigital, Inc., a software security and quality consulting firm with headquarters in the Washington, D.C., area. He is a globally recognized authority on software security and the author of six best-selling books on this topic. The latest, Software Security: Building Security In, was released in 2006. His other titles include Java Security (Wiley), Building Secure Software (Addison-Wesley), and Exploiting Software (Addison-Wesley). He is the editor of the Addison-Wesley Software Security Series. Dr. McGraw has also written more than 90 peer-reviewed scientific publications, writes a monthly security column for 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.

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