Securing MMOs: A Security Professional's View From the Inside

Presented at DEF CON 18 (2010), Aug. 1, 2010, 5 p.m. (50 minutes)

Gold farmers. Cheaters. Beleaguered programmers. All ingredients in a recipe for an unstable, fun-sapping game. Closely following the model of "Brief Title: Long, Boring Description," Securing MMOs: A Security Professional's View From the Inside will give attendees a look at the security problems plaguing the MMO industry and how modern engineers are taking the fight to cheaters and hackers in MMOs.

Presenters:

• metr0 - Senior Software Engineer, Bioware Mythic
  metr0 is currently a Senior Software Engineer with Bioware Mythic in Fairfax, VA. As a member of computer security group Kenshoto, he has hosted four Defcon CTF competitions and frustrated thousands of hackers with unnecessarily evil challenges. For the last four years, he has written subversive software and has recently moved into the gaming industry.

Links:

• https://defcon.org/html/defcon-18/dc-18-speakers.html#metr0
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 18/DEF CON 18 video and slides/DEF CON 18 - metr0 - Securing MMOs - Video and Slides.mp4 (Video and Slides)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IGvIexJSFU