Reducing the attack surface in massively multiplayer online role-playing games

IEEE Security and Privacy

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 13-19

  Bono, Stephen ^a   Caselden, Dan ^a   Landau, Gabriel ^a   Miller, Charlie ^a  

^a Independent Security Evaluators ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games; MMORG; Securing Online Games; Software development

Indexed keywords

FILE FORMATS; MALWARE; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE ROLE-PLAYING GAMES; MMORG; MMORPGS; ON-LINE GAMES; PROBLEM AREAS; ROLE-PLAYING GAME; SECURING ONLINE GAMES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 67650851265     PISSN: 15407993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2009.75     Document Type: Article

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