The Hartford CT Chapter of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is pleased to announce the first quarterly meeting on Thursday, February 28th 2008 at 5:30pm at the Headquarters of the Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. in Hartford CT.
Chenxi Wang, Ph.D. Principal Analyst at Forrester Research will be speaking on the State of Software Security and Gary McGraw, Ph.D. CTO of Cigital will be speaking on Exploiting Online Games.
Agenda: Thursday, Feb 28th 2008 ![Connecticut Object Oriented Users Group]()
The State of Software Security: 6:00 - 6:45 PM
Chenxi Wang, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
Exploiting Online Games: 7:00 - 7:45 PM
Gary McGraw, CTO of CigitalThe talk, based on a book of the same title (co-authored by Greg Hoglund), exposes the inner workings of online game security for all to see, drawing illustrations from MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft to discuss: - Why online games are a harbinger of software security issues to come
- How millions of gamers have created billion dollar virtual economies
- How game companies invade your privacy
- Why some gamers cheat
- Techniques for breaking onsite game security
- How to build a bot to play a game for you
- Methods for total conversion and advanced mods
Ultimately this talk is about security problems associated with advanced massively distributed software. With hundreds of thousands
of interacting users, today's online games are a bellwether of modern software yet to come. The kinds of attack and defense techniques described in this presentation are tomorrow's security techniques on display today.
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