You know, Skapare, even Kernighan and Ritchie admit that C has serious security problems. I've talked to them both about it. As for C++, it is a complete dog of a language that would be best stricken from the planet.

You may snicker, but I am a scheme programmer at heart.

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WSC is a good book. So is the SDL book by Lipner and Howard.

Probably the best book on security for builders to read is "Security Engineering" by Ross Anderson,

I happen to think that "Software Security" is good too. Then again, I wrote it.

http://www.amazon.com/Software-Security-Building-Gary-McGraw/dp/0321356705/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314456538&sr=8-1

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Here, try this one on for size:

Software Security

http://www.amazon.com/Software-Security-Building-Gary-McGraw/dp/0321356705/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314456538&sr=8-1

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This is a nice posting. Do note, however, that most game hacks against MMORPGs do not involve network-level packet twiddle. Instead, most attacks involve reversing the actual client program and manipulating that. It's a new paradigm (and one not very familiar to most computer security people).

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