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Cheating in Online Gaming: Causes & Solutions

The document discusses cheating and exploits in online games. It covers how cheating can give players unfair advantages through game play exploits like lag switching or modifying game data by speed hacking. Motivations for cheating include the potential to earn real-world money from online games. Game developers try to prevent cheating by detecting exploits, patching vulnerabilities, and monitoring player behavior. The challenges of securing online games are similar to implementing internal controls in businesses.

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Cheating in Online Gaming: Causes & Solutions

The document discusses cheating and exploits in online games. It covers how cheating can give players unfair advantages through game play exploits like lag switching or modifying game data by speed hacking. Motivations for cheating include the potential to earn real-world money from online games. Game developers try to prevent cheating by detecting exploits, patching vulnerabilities, and monitoring player behavior. The challenges of securing online games are similar to implementing internal controls in businesses.

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Online Games and Security Cause and Effects of Cheating

Jason Tang 20224466 July 6, 2011

Contents
Gaming Industry Cheating/Exploits Examples with Detection
Game Play Exploits Modifying Game data

Unfair Advantage Motivation Prevention Application

Gaming Industry
Playing Games PC vs Console Distribution Examples Constraints Variables

Exploits
Game Play Modifying Game Data

Cheating
An action that a player takes to achieve an objective that he/she should not have been able to and gives him/her an unfair advantage

Game Play Exploits


How? Why? Lagging Binding Stacking Program Bugs Farming

Modifying Game Data


How? Why? Speed Hacking Using Bots
Aiming Farming

Auto-programming Account Hacking

Unfair Advantage?
Advantageous but not Unfair

Unfair Advantage?

Unfair Advantage?

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Unfair Advantage?

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Motivation
EVE Online
170 million ISK $170,000 USD

StarCraft II
$100,000 USD Grand Prize

World of WarCraft
1000 gold $12.50 USD

Prevention
Detecting Patching Monitoring

Application
Online game security is similar to internal controls in that problems must first be identified, then modified and monitored The gaming industry is becoming more mainstream and by staying informed one may be able to capitalize on its growth.

References
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