The Art of Game Security
Joey Zhu examines the game security is a branch of security without noteworthy, but the problems is critical for game survival.
Summary
Architecture and Background
The game security is a branch of security without noteworthy, but the problems is critical for game survival. The underground economy cost billions of dollars loss from game, the presentation will discover some founding at underground economy at first.
Vulnerability Analysis
In the main part of presentation will show some techniques details of game hacks with comparison of traditional security problem. The last part will discuss some protection countermeasures against those hacks and exploits.
Exploitation and Demonstrations
Joey Zhu is an expert and director at Tencent, and working on Game Security since 2013. Previously, he was an architect and researcher at Trend Micro China from 2005 to 2012.
Remediation and Defensive Strategies
His major work focus on PE virus sandbox, Script Analysis Engine on web threats and Game Security solution. He was honored to be a speaker on the topic “Chinese phishing at DEF CON 19”, in Las Vegas, in 2011. WeChat: joey-nj
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