Game Security
The popularity of online games has greatly escalated nowadays. It has become an important part of the daily lives of many people around the world. Increased fraud and cheats in the gaming industry are the result of weak and poor security in online games. Those cheaters are enjoying and have economic inducement to break the security of online games. Hackers of online games pose some common threats in the gaming community and below are some of these risks:
Many problems which are related to computer security are the result of flaws and bugs in software. At first, this scenario was very true in online banking, and now, inline games are not free from these problems. Software contains bugs which are related to security, and software providers have developed unique tools to locate certain bugs. But these tools are proven to be ineffective in fighting these bugs but further complicate the situation. Many computer and software experts have created a lot of papers on the taxonomy of bugs but unfortunately, disagree with one another.
State and time problems are involved in one of the most fundamental security bugs. This problem appears due to system state’s need to be shared with a lot of distributed processors. All these processors should have different levels when it comes to trustworthiness. An example of this is the well-known online game World of Warcraft. This video game need to share state information with a lot of client programs at the same time. When all the processes of the clients interlink on one server in real-time, the confusion in the system state attacks popup. And when the game’s state information was cracked off, and then sent to the clients of the game which are untrustworthy, this scenario causes problems which needed to betaken care of as soon as possible.
