Posted in Fraud, News, Software Vulnerability on December 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Wired reports that online games are going to use software that examines how users behave in games and then flags irregularities to prevent ‘cheating’ within the games. As I have argued here this idea could be used to modify defined anti-social behavior within virtual environment.
Article here:
Online Games Use Fraud Software to Combat Cheats
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Posted in Fraud, Legal, News, Software Vulnerability on October 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Online games and the law
Online games and fraud
Hackers freeze web sites of Game Money Trading Firms
Posted in News, Software Vulnerability on October 2, 2007 | No Comments »
AP article on cheating video games.
Link here.
Posted in Crime, Fraud, Software Vulnerability on September 24, 2007 | No Comments »
The Symantec Corp’s latest report on the security threat to the Internet (Vol.XII) has some interesting detail on the increasing attempts to hack virtual worlds and the lure of their virtual currencies. Link here.
Posted in Crime, Fraud, Legal, Software Vulnerability on June 17, 2007 | No Comments »
IBM & MIT Media Lab hosted a conference on virtual worlds on 15 June - the title of the conference was, “Where Business, Society, Technology & Policy Converge”. As part of the conference Colin Parris, VP for Digital Convergence outlined, amongst other things, what he thinks is essential in creating future viable virtual platforms. [...]
Posted in Software Vulnerability on June 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Work on exploiting the software of MMO’s is about to be published by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw. The title of the book, Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems should give MMO developers headaches.
