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RARA
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My question is How game developers protect against hackers?
And what is the best protection in your opinion (in game antihacks programs ..etc)?
And what is the best protection in your opinion (in game antihacks programs ..etc)?
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*This i'm not sure of*
Other games which don't use third party programs, makes the server read the response from the user. If the response indicates use of hacks or cheats the server will report it, and then the user will be punished, (banned, suspended, etc.)
IP doesnt mean much unless you have a unpatched windows & no firewall. Even then the "hacker" needs to use the correct programs & the correct security holes & even then there is always the risk ISP noticing it. If the ISP does notice it they will cancell the "hackers" internet service (& possibly also report it to the police).
but how game developers can avoid hackers? cuple days ago, server i play was hacked. Game is "protected" by HackShield program seems it doesnt stoped hacker to write Notice to all players...
"Speaking haygywaygy or some other gibberish with your mum doesn't make you foreign."
-baff
"We feel gold selling and websites that promote it damage games like Vanguard and will do everything possible to combat it."
Brad McQuaid
Chairman & CEO, Sigil Games Online, Inc.
Executive Producer, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
www.vanguardsoh
Someone cracked the server and posted a greet. So what? I think its awesome.
People say "LOL hackers need to get a life."
...Childishness.
On the server side they should follow all the best practices for developing secure applications.
This doesn’t protect your account from being hacked because that is dependant on the security of your own system If your PC gets hacked or you install a Trojan there is nothing the game developer can do to prevent that hacker from getting your account information.
Keeping your system behind a firewall, and keeping it updated will give you a lot of protection from hackers but sadly most Trojans/malware gets installed with the users approval.
For example, les say you visit a website that has a popup covering the thing you wanted to see. The popup has a little X to let you close it, so no problem right? Wrong. Unless that X is a windows widget, that looks *exactly* like the windows close program X you have no idea what code is sitting behind it. It could simply close the popup like it says or it could be code that says you are authorizing that popup to install another program on your PC, you have no idea which.
For all you know clicking that X could be installing a keystroke logger, that sits and waits for you to launch a game then recorded whatever you type and sends it off to someone else. All they have to do is look through it for your user ID and password and they have control over your account.
You should never ever click on any popup you see while browsing the internet. Don’t do it even to close a popup you see on a reputable site because many times reputable site get their popups from advertising firms that are far less reputable.
You both say that now, but once your credit cards, bank information, and gaming accounts are stolen; you will be singing a different tune. To say otherwise would be lying and we all know it.
There are professional hackers employed by the goverment, but they are paid to keep our country safe. They should be respected, and those that break a law they agreed to uphold should not be.
I've got that one from the same site 5 times in a row
But to get back on topic; A lot of people get hacked mmo caused by thirdparty aplication. And then usually then go to the developer and whine, it is not the company's fault that you download a thirdparty program which can mesure your damage per second, but also contains a keylogger. And there will always be some über h4xx0r who can crack a security system, but what does that prove? That he is good at programming? That he got some fancy program? I think it proves he has nothing better to do, than annoy people who worked hard on something.
You both say that now, but once your credit cards, bank information, and gaming accounts are stolen; you will be singing a different tune. To say otherwise would be lying and we all know it.
There are professional hackers employed by the goverment, but they are paid to keep our country safe. They should be respected, and those that break a law they agreed to uphold should not be.
Okay.. Okay.. An cracker doesn't have to have any programming experience what so ever. To crack something, you just need to exploit the wellknown weaksides.
What most people don't understand is.. Crackers often operate in small, tigth-knit groups. An hacker, will look down upon an cracker. An cracker, is a person who attempts to get unauthorized access to an computer.
Hackers.. You don't claim to be an hacker. Others names you an hacker. Hackers are an more open community, where the act of learning and using what you've learned(This is, programming languages. Which crackers doesn't use, all that often) to create open-source software, debugging said software, sharing what you've learned, and handle new problems. What an hacker really likes, is understanding programs, and languages.. And then improve them. It have nothing, what so ever, to do with crackers.
Crackers and Hackers are two seperated groups. Hackers have given us everything from WWW, to Unix. Crackers gives us only annoying problems.
Edit: I blame the media. Way to often they missuse the word hacker, while the correct term would be cracker.
D.
So many games, so little time!
The ones you need to worry about can almost always be closed simply by backing out of the web page of going to a different site.
The built in security of your system already does an ok job at preventing a popup from doing things automatically which is why they need you to click. Since they can’t do anything automatically they can’t even get off the web page that they reside on, close the page or go to another any they have to close as well. They could spawn a new browser window, but those you can close safely because they have an authentic close window widget.
While you are correct the two things are not mutually exclusive. Hackers often look for vulnerabilities in computers systems. They may or may not be doing this with the intention to break into, damage or exploit these systems. If they are then they are a cracker in addition to being a hacker. Individually these are the most dangerous of the crackers.
There is a second type of cracker, often referred to as script kiddies. They are no hackers in their own right, and generally don’t even have a tiny fraction of the knowledge a hacker would have but can do a lot of damage because of their numbers and the fact that they often use a shotgun approach. Instead of looking for targeting a specific system and searching for vulnerabilities they usually use scripts to that target a single know vulnerability and attack vast numbers of systems looking for ones that haven’t been patched to close that vulnerability. In most cases they are not even able to write the script themselves and simply run or perhaps modify scripts written by a cracker with true hacking ability.
Yeah, like me cracking passwords to porn sites. I used nothing but 100% knowledge written by some cracker, and used the programs they recommended.
Figures the one site that has vulnerabilities is a gay latino site. Doh.