"Imagine trying to play defense in football without ever studying offense. You would not know when a run was coming, how to defend pass patterns, nor when to blitz. In computer systems, as in football, a defender must be able to think like an attacker. I say it in my class every semester, you don't want to be the last person to attack your own system--you should be the first. "The world is quickly going online. While I caution against online voting, it is clear that online gaming is taking the Internet by storm. In our new age where virtual items carry real dollar value, and fortunes are won and lost over items that do not really exist, the new threats to the intrepid gamer are all too real. To protect against these hazards, you must understand them, and this groundbreaking book is the only comprehensive source of information on how to exploit computer games. Every White Hat should read it. It's their only hope of staying only one step behind the bad guys." --Aviel D. Rubin, Ph.D. Professor, Computer Science Technical Director, Information Security Institute Johns Hopkins University "Everyone's talking about virtual worlds. But no one's talking about virtual-world security. Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw are the perfect pair to show just how vulnerable these online games can be." --Cade Metz Senior Editor PC Magazine "If we're going to improve our security practices, frank discussions like the ones in this book are the only way forward. Or as the authors of this book might say, when you're facing off against Heinous Demons of Insecurity, you need experienced companions, not to mention a Vorpal Sword of Security Knowledge." --Edward W. Felten, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs Director, Center for Information Technology Policy Princeton University "Historically, games have been used by warfighters to develop new capabilities and to hone existing skills--especially in the Air Force. The authors turn this simple concept on itself, making games themselves the subject and target of the 'hacking game,' and along the way creating a masterly publication that is as meaningful to the gamer as it is to the serious security system professional. "Massively distributed systems will define the software field of play for at least the next quarter century. Understanding how they work is important, but understanding how they can be manipulated is essential for the security professional. This book provides the cornerstone for that knowledge." --Daniel McGarvey Chief, Information Protection Directorate United States Air Force "Like a lot of kids, Gary and I came to computing (and later to computer security) through games. At first, we were fascinated with playing games on our Apple ][s, but then became bored with the few games we could afford. We tried copying each other's games, but ran up against copy-protection schemes. So we set out to understand those schemes and how they could be defeated. Pretty quickly, we realized that it was a lot more fun to disassemble and work around the protections in a game than it was to play it. "With the thriving economies of today's online games, people not only have the classic hacker's motivation to understand and bypass the security of games, but also the criminal motivation of cold, hard cash. That's a combination that's hard to stop. The first step, taken by this book, is revealing the techniques that are being used today." --Greg Morrisett, Ph.D. Allen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University "If you're playing online games today and you don't understand security, you're at a real disadvantage. If you're designing the massive distributed systems of tomorrow and you don't learn from games, you're just plain sunk." --Brian Chess, Ph.D. Founder/Chief Scientist, Fortify Software Coauthor of Secure Programming with Static Analysis "This book offers up a fascinating tour of the battle for software security on a whole new front: attacking an online game. Newcomers will find it incredibly eye opening and even veterans of the field will enjoy some of the same old programming mistakes given brilliant new light in a way that only massively-multiplayer-supermega-blow-em-up games can deliver. w00t!" --Pravir Chandra Principal Consultant, Cigital Coauthor of Network Security with OpenSSL If you are a gamer, a game developer, a software security professional, or an interested bystander, this book exposes the inner workings of online-game security for all to see. From the authors of the best-selling Exploiting Software, Exploiting Online Games takes a frank look at controversial security issues surrounding MMORPGs, such as World of Warcraft™ and Second Life®. This no-holds-barred book comes fully loaded with code examples, debuggers, bots, and hacks. This book covers <ul>
<li>Why online games are a harbinger of software security issues to come</li> <li>How millions of gamers have created billion-dollar virtual economies</li> <li>How game companies invade personal privacy</li> <li>Why some gamers cheat</li> <li>Techniques for breaking online game security</li> <li>How to build a bot to play a game for you</li> <li>Methods for total conversion and advanced mods </li> </ul>
Written by the world's foremost software security experts, this book takes a close look at 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. The kinds of attack and defense techniques described in Exploiting Online Games are tomorrow's security techniques on display today.

Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems

Computers & Technology

Hoglund, Greg

McGraw, Gary

Games & Strategy Guides

Addison-Wesley Professional

Most organizations have a firewall, antivirus software, and intrusion detection systems, all of which are intended to keep attackers out. So why is computer security a bigger problem today than ever before? The answer is simple--bad software lies at the heart of all computer security problems. Traditional solutions simply treat the symptoms, not the problem, and usually do so in a reactive way. This book teaches you how to take a proactive approach to computer security. Building Secure Software cuts to the heart of computer security to help you get security right the first time. If you are serious about computer security, you need to read this book, which includes essential lessons for both security professionals who have come to realize that software is the problem, and software developers who intend to make their code behave. Written for anyone involved in software development and use—from managers to coders—this book is your first step toward building more secure software. Building Secure Software provides expert perspectives and techniques to help you ensure the security of essential software. If you consider threats and vulnerabilities early in the devel-opment cycle you can build security into your system. With this book you will learn how to determine an acceptable level of risk, develop security tests, and plug security holes before software is even shipped. Inside you'll find the ten guiding principles for software security, as well as detailed coverage of: <ul>
<li>Software risk management for security</li> <li>Selecting technologies to make your code more secure</li> <li>Security implications of open source and proprietary software</li> <li>How to audit software</li> <li>The dreaded buffer overflow</li> <li>Access control and password authentication</li> <li>Random number generation</li> <li>Applying cryptography</li> <li>Trust management and input</li> <li>Client-side security</li> <li>Dealing with firewalls</li> </ul>
Only by building secure software can you defend yourself against security breaches and gain the confidence that comes with knowing you won't have to play the "penetrate and patch" game anymore. Get it right the first time. Let these expert authors show you how to properly design your system; save time, money, and credibility; and preserve your customers' trust.

Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way

Viega, John

Certification

Praise for Exploiting Software 
 “Exploiting Software highlights the most critical part of the software quality problem. As it turns out, software quality problems are a major contributing factor to computer security problems. Increasingly, companies large and small depend on software to run their businesses every day. The current approach to software quality and security taken by software companies, system integrators, and internal development organizations is like driving a car on a rainy day with worn-out tires and no air bags. In both cases, the odds are that something bad is going to happen, and there is no protection for the occupant/owner. This book will help the reader understand how to make software quality part of the design—a key change from where we are today!” —Tony Scott Chief Technology Officer, IS&amp;S General Motors Corporation “It’s about time someone wrote a book to teach the good guys what the bad guys already know. As the computer security industry matures, books like Exploiting Software have a critical role to play.” —Bruce Schneier Chief Technology Officer Counterpane Author of Beyond Fear and Secrets and Lies “Exploiting Software cuts to the heart of the computer security problem, showing why broken software presents a clear and present danger. Getting past the ‘worm of the day’ phenomenon requires that someone other than the bad guys understands how software is attacked. This book is a wake-up call for computer security.” —Elinor Mills Abreu Reuters’ correspondent “Police investigators study how criminals think and act. Military strategists learn about the enemy’s tactics, as well as their weapons and personnel capabilities. Similarly, information security professionals need to study their criminals and enemies, so we can tell the difference between popguns and weapons of mass destruction. This book is a significant advance in helping the ‘white hats’ understand how the ‘black hats’ operate. Through extensive examples and ‘attack patterns,’ this book helps the reader understand how attackers analyze software and use the results of the analysis to attack systems. Hoglund and McGraw explain not only how hackers attack servers, but also how malicious server operators can attack clients (and how each can protect themselves from the other). An excellent book for practicing security engineers, and an ideal book for an undergraduate class in software security.” —Jeremy Epstein Director, Product Security &amp; Performance webMethods, Inc. “A provocative and revealing book from two leading security experts and world class software exploiters, Exploiting Software enters the mind of the cleverest and wickedest crackers and shows you how they think. It illustrates general principles for breaking software, and provides you a whirlwind tour of techniques for finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities, along with detailed examples from real software exploits. Exploiting Software is essential reading for anyone responsible for placing software in a hostile environment—that is, everyone who writes or installs programs that run on the Internet.” —Dave Evans, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computer Science University of Virginia “The root cause for most of today’s Internet hacker exploits and malicious software outbreaks are buggy software and faulty security software deployment. In Exploiting Software, Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw help us in an interesting and provocative way to better defend ourselves against malicious hacker attacks on those software loopholes. The information in this book is an essential reference that needs to be understood, digested, and aggressively addressed by IT and information security professionals everywhere.” —Ken Cutler, CISSP, CISA Vice President, Curriculum Development &amp; Professional Services, MIS Training Institute “This book describes the threats to software in concrete, understandable, and frightening detail. It also discusses how to find these problems before the bad folks do. A valuable addition to every programmer’s and security person’s library!” —Matt Bishop, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science University of California at Davis Author of Computer Security: Art and Science “Whether we slept through software engineering classes or paid attention, those of us who build things remain responsible for achieving meaningful and measurable vulnerability reductions. If you can’t afford to stop all software manufacturing to teach your engineers how to build secure software from the ground up, you should at least increase awareness in your organization by demanding that they read Exploiting Software. This book clearly demonstrates what happens to broken software in the wild.” —Ron Moritz, CISSP Senior Vice President, Chief Security Strategist Computer Associates “Exploiting Software is the most up-to-date technical treatment of software security I have seen. If you worry about software and application vulnerability, Exploiting Software is a must-read. This book gets at all the timely and important issues surrounding software security in a technical, but still highly readable and engaging, way. Hoglund and McGraw have done an excellent job of picking out the major ideas in software exploit and nicely organizing them to make sense of the software security jungle.” —George Cybenko, Ph.D. Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth Founding Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Security and Privacy “This is a seductive book. It starts with a simple story, telling about hacks and cracks. It draws you in with anecdotes, but builds from there. In a few chapters you find yourself deep in the intimate details of software security. It is the rare technical book that is a readable and enjoyable primer but has the substance to remain on your shelf as a reference. Wonderful stuff.” —Craig Miller, Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer for North America Dimension Data “It’s hard to protect yourself if you don’t know what you’re up against. This book has the details you need to know about how attackers find software holes and exploit them—details that will help you secure your own systems.” —Ed Felten, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science Princeton University “If you worry about software and application vulnerability, Exploiting Software is a must-read. This book gets at all the timely and important issues surrounding software security in a technical, but still highly readable and engaging way.” —George Cybenko, Ph.D. Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth Founding Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine “Exploiting Software is the best treatment of any kind that I have seen on the topic of software vulnerabilities.” —From the Foreword by Aviel D. Rubin Associate Professor, Computer Science Technical Director, Information Security Institute, Johns Hopkins University How does software break? How do attackers make software break on purpose? Why are firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus software not keeping out the bad guys? What tools can be used to break software? This book provides the answers. Exploiting Software is loaded with examples of real attacks, attack patterns, tools, and techniques used by bad guys to break software. If you want to protect your software from attack, you must first learn how real attacks are really carried out. This must-have book may shock you--and it will certainly educate you.Getting beyond the script kiddie treatment found in many hacking books, you will learn about <ul>
<li>Why software exploit will continue to be a serious problem</li> <li>When network security mechanisms do not work</li> <li>Attack patterns</li> <li>Reverse engineering</li> <li>Classic attacks against server software</li> <li>Surprising attacks against client software</li> <li>Techniques for crafting malicious input</li> <li>The technical details of buffer overflows</li> <li>Rootkits</li> </ul>
 Exploiting Software is filled with the tools, concepts, and knowledge necessary to break software.

Exploiting Software: How to Break Code

"When it comes to software security, the devil is in the details. This book tackles the details." --Bruce Schneier, CTO and founder, Counterpane, and author of Beyond Fear and Secrets and Lies "McGraw's book shows you how to make the 'culture of security' part of your development lifecycle." --Howard A. Schmidt, Former White House Cyber Security Advisor "McGraw is leading the charge in software security. His advice is as straightforward as it is actionable. If your business relies on software (and whose doesn't), buy this book and post it up on the lunchroom wall." --Avi Rubin, Director of the NSF ACCURATE Center; Professor, Johns Hopkins University; and coauthor of Firewalls and Internet Security Beginning where the best-selling book Building Secure Software left off, Software Security teaches you how to put software security into practice.The software security best practices, or touchpoints, described in this book have their basis in good software engineering and involve explicitly pondering security throughout the software development lifecycle. This means knowing and understanding common risks (including implementation bugsand architectural flaws), designing for security, and subjecting all software artifacts to thorough, objective risk analyses and testing. Software Security is about putting the touchpoints to work for you. Because you can apply these touchpoints to the software artifacts you already produce as you develop software, you can adopt this book's methods without radically changing the way you work. Inside you'll find detailed explanations of <ul>
<li>Risk management frameworks and processes </li>
<li>Code review using static analysis tools </li>
<li>Architectural risk analysis </li>
<li>Penetration testing </li>
<li>Security testing </li>
<li>Abuse case development</li> </ul>
In addition to the touchpoints, Software Security covers knowledge management, training and awareness, and enterprise-level software security programs. Now that the world agrees that software security is central to computer security, it is time to put philosophy into practice. Create your own secure development lifecycle by enhancing your existing software development lifecycle with the touchpoints described in this book. Let this expert author show you how to build more secure software by building security in.

Software Security: Building Security In

What is it about software that makes security such a problem? If you want to build secure software, how do you do it? These questions and the perseverance of three of the world's leading security experts, Gary McGraw, John Viega, and Greg Hoglund, led to the three books contained in this package. Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way, the white hat book, seems to have touched off a revolution. Security people who once relied solely on firewalls, intrusion detection, and anti-virus mechanisms came to understand and embrace the necessity of better software. This book provides a coherent and sensible philosophical foundation for the blossoming field of software security. Exploiting Software: How to Break Code, the black hat book, provides a much needed balance, teaching how to break software and how malicious hackers write exploits. This book is meant as a reality check for software security, ensuring that the good guys address real attacks and invent and peddle solutions that actually work. Exploiting Software and Building Secure Software are in some senses mirror images. Software Security: Building Security In unifies the two sides of software security--attack and defense, exploiting and designing, breaking and building--into a coherent whole. Like the yin and the yang, software security requires a careful balance.

Software Security Library Boxed Set, First Edition

“This book’s broad overview can help an organization choose a set of processes, policies, and techniques that are appropriate for its security maturity, risk tolerance, and development style. This book will help you understand how to incorporate practical security techniques into all phases of the development lifecycle.” —Steve Riley, senior security strategist, Microsoft Corporation “There are books written on some of the topics addressed in this book, and there are other books on secure systems engineering. Few address the entire life cycle with a comprehensive overview and discussion of emerging trends and topics as well as this one.” —Ronda Henning, senior scientist-software/security queen, Harris Corporation Software that is developed from the beginning with security in mind will resist, tolerate, and recover from attacks more effectively than would otherwise be possible. While there may be no silver bullet for security, there are practices that project managers will find beneficial. With this management guide, you can select from a number of sound practices likely to increase the security and dependability of your software, both during its development and subsequently in its operation. Software Security Engineering draws extensively on the systematic approach developed for the Build Security In (BSI) Web site. Sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security Software Assurance Program, the BSI site offers a host of tools, guidelines, rules, principles, and other resources to help project managers address security issues in every phase of the software development life cycle (SDLC). The book’s expert authors, themselves frequent contributors to the BSI site, represent two well-known resources in the security world: the CERT Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and Cigital, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in software security. This book will help you understand why <ul>
<li> Software security is about more than just eliminating vulnerabilities and conducting penetration tests </li> <li> Network security mechanisms and IT infrastructure security services do not sufficiently protect application software from security risks </li> <li> Software security initiatives should follow a risk-management approach to identify priorities and to define what is “good enough”—understanding that software security risks will change throughout the SDLC </li> <li> Project managers and software engineers need to learn to think like an attacker in order to address the range of functions that software should not do, and how software can better resist, tolerate, and recover when under attack </li> </ul>
 Chapter 1: Why Is Security a Software Issue? 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 The Problem 2 1.3 Software Assurance and Software Security 6 1.4 Threats to Software Security 9 1.5 Sources of Software Insecurity 11 1.6 The Benefits of Detecting Software Security Defects Early 13 1.7 Managing Secure Software Development 18 1.8 Summary 23 Chapter 2: What Makes Software Secure? 25 2.1 Introduction 25 2.2 Defining Properties of Secure Software 26 2.3 How to Influence the Security Properties of Software 36 2.4 How to Assert and Specify Desired Security Properties 61 2.5 Summary 71 Chapter 3: Requirements Engineering for Secure Software 73 3.1 Introduction 73 3.2 Misuse and Abuse Cases 78 3.3 The SQUARE Process Model 84 3.4 SQUARE Sample Outputs 91 3.5 Requirements Elicitation 99 3.6 Requirements Prioritization 106 3.7 Summary 112 Chapter 4: Secure Software Architecture and Design 115 4.1 Introduction 115 4.2 Software Security Practices for Architecture and Design: Architectural Risk Analysis 119 4.3 Software Security Knowledge for Architecture and Design: Security Principles, Security Guidelines, and Attack Patterns 137 4.4 Summary 148 Chapter 5: Considerations for Secure Coding and Testing 151 5.1 Introduction 151 5.2 Code Analysis 152 5.3 Coding Practices 160 5.4 Software Security Testing 163 5.5 Security Testing Considerations Throughout the SDLC 173 5.6 Summary 180 Chapter 6: Security and Complexity: System Assembly Challenges 183 6.1 Introduction 183 6.2 Security Failures 186 6.3 Functional and Attacker Perspectives for Security Analysis: Two Examples 189 6.4 System Complexity Drivers and Security 203 6.5 Deep Technical Problem Complexity 215 6.6 Summary 217 Chapter 7: Governance, and Managing for More Secure Software 221 7.1 Introduction 221 7.2 Governance and Security 223 7.3 Adopting an Enterprise Software Security Framework 226 7.4 How Much Security Is Enough? 236 7.5 Security and Project Management 244 7.6 Maturity of Practice 259 7.7 Summary 266 Chapter 8: Getting Started 267 8.1 Where to Begin 269 8.2 In Closing 281

Software Security Engineering: A Guide for Project Managers

Allen, Julia H.

Barnum, Sean

Ellison, Robert J.

Mead, Nancy R.

"This book is mandatory reading for every user and developer of webware." —Peter G. Neumann Moderator of the Risks Forum 
Do you know how to sort out fact from fiction when it comes to Java security? Did you know that whenever you surf the Web with Netscape or Internet Explorer you are using Java? That means that someone else's code is running untested on your computer. Don't wait for a hostile applet to show you how vulnerable your site is. International security experts Gary McGraw and Edward Felten —leader of the famed Princeton team —tell you how Java security works, and how it doesn't. McGraw and Felten give you all the information you need to create a reasonable Java use strategy. Java Security gives you: <ul>
<li>Guidelines for using Java more safely today</li> <li>What to expect in the Java security future</li> <li>A clear treatment of the risks of using Java</li> <li>Vital information explaining the three prongs of the Java security model: the Byte Code Verifier, the Applet Class Loader, and the Security Manager</li> <li>Clear explanations of holes in the Java security model</li> </ul>
Whether you're a webmaster, an information technology manager charged with creating an intelligent security policy for your organization, or a concerned Web user, this book is must reading. visit this book's companion web site at: http://www.rstcorp.com/java-security.html visit our web site at: Ihttp://www.wiley.com/compbooks/

Java Security: Hostile Applets, Holes & Antidotes

Fellen, Edward

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

This book is the first to describe the unique benefits and challenges associated with fault injection methods. Using real world case-studies and applications data, the authors explain fault injection to the programmer and the developer. CD-ROM includes demo versions of fault injection tools and some basic algorithms for the reader to customize.

Software Fault Injection: Inoculating Programs Against Errors

Voas, Jeffrey M.

Computer Science

Information Security/Java "This book is mandatory reading for every user and developer of Webware." -Peter G. Neumann, Moderator of the Risks Forum, from his review of the first edition Securing Java Java security is more important now than ever before. As Java matures and moves into the enterprise, security takes a more prominent role. But as Java evolves, its security issues and architectures get more complicated. Written by the world's leading experts on mobile code security, this updated and expanded edition of the groundbreaking guide to Java security includes lessons for Web users, developers, system administrators, and business decision-makers alike. This book navigates the uncharted waters of mobile code security and arms the reader with the knowledge required for securing Java. It provides in-depth coverage of: * The base Java security sandbox, made up of the Verifier, Class Loaders, and the Security Manager * Code signing, stack inspection, and the new Java 2 security architecture * The pros and cons of language-based enforcement models and trust models * All known Java security holes and the attack applets that exploit them * Techniques commonly used in malicious applets * Twelve rules for developing more secure Java code, with explicit examples * Hard questions to ask third-party Java security tools vendors * Analysis of competing systems for mobile code, including ActiveX and JavaScript * Card Java security, smart card risks, and their impact on e-commerce security On the companion Web site www.securingjava.com you'll find: * The Java Security Hotlist: Over 100 categorized and annotated Java security-related Web links * An e-mail list to keep subscribers abreast of breaking Java security news * A complete electronic edition of this book

Securing Java: Getting Down to Business with Mobile Code, 2nd Edition

Felten, Edward W.

Programming Languages

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