Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems (Paperback)

Foreword
Preface
Why Are We Doing This?
Where Do We Draw the Line?
What's in the Book?
The Software Security Series
Contacting the Authors
Acknowledgments
Greg's Acknowledgments
Gary's 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
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
VirtualWorlds: 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 Uber Alles
Building Security In for Game Developers
Security for Everyday Gamers
Exploiting Online Games


Index