Online Games and Security Issues
Rosslin John Robles, Sang-Soo Yeo, Young-Deuk Moon, Gil-cheol Park, Seoksoo Kim · 2008
The Online game industry has grown a lot this past decade. Cheating in online games is an aspect of computer games that has so far received skimp attention from researchers on game studies. Cheats does not only affect the cheater but also other players. Cheating has become illegal since it poses security threats. This paper discusses security problems in online games. This study intends to help understand these attacks not only as a problem of security in online games but also as the basis of threats against future cooperative computer systems.