Online games: Categorization of attacks

EUROCON 2005 - The International Conference on Computer as a Tool

Volumn II, Issue , 2005, Pages 1340-1343

  Lyhyaoui, Y ^b   Lyhyaoui, A ^a,c   Natkin, S ^b  

^a IEEE   (Morocco)

^b Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

^c Abdelmalek Essaadi University   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Attacks; Cheats; Online gaming; Threats

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

COOPERATIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GAMES INDUSTRY; INTERNET TECHNOLOGY; ONLINE GAMING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 33947313199     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eurcon.2005.1630206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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