Lessons Learned from Building a Game Proxy | John Askew | WWHF Deadwood 2022

Join us at the annual information security conference in Deadwood, SD (in-person and virtually) — Wild West Hackin' Fest: https://wildwesthackinfest.com/

What’s more fun than playing a game? Hacking a game (for fun and education, not for griefing of course)! For even more fun, do it live and talk about it! In this presentation, we will highlight the journey of reverse engineering network protocols, building custom client/server/proxy tooling, and hunting for (and possibly exploiting) vulnerabilities. To illustrate this process, we will …

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