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G3-247 Report MOBILE & TABLET GAMING


knowledge of technology to defeat security systems. It's the lower skilled hackers that will find it more difficult to beat the security systems that are possible to put into place and thus will be thwarted.


Bryan Kelly, Senior Vice-President of Technology, Bally Technologies - I think everyone is paranoid about security. Experts are hired to explain about the attacks that can occur, where in fact all the gaming activity occurs on a server, where the client is nothing more than a viewer. The communications from client to server are secured, you put strong passwords in place, encrypt the data, protect those passwords and don’t share credentials. Playing from your mobile phone is no less secure than playing in the casino. All our sys- tems are down on the server. If you attempt to hack into the client - we will catch you.


There’s actually much more risk in the Free2Play space right now. Multiple logins are a big issue, with players on the same phone getting to play indefinitely. There are still a lot of issues tracking the device ID, you have mul- tiple different users registered to one device, which means they could be deleting the app many times, resulting in multiple login abuse.


Aleš Gornjec, General Manager at Comtrade Gaming -HTML5 games are basically very interactive web pages so we can do fraud prevention with IOvation etc. like on desktop (e.g. when the user logs in his loca- tion and other data is checked to prevent fraud). Additionally, standard security measures like HTTPS are used to prevent network traffic snooping so user connections are always safe from potential hackers during gameplay.


Luke Alvarez, CEO, Inspired Gaming Group - Exposing services to the public internet carries risk of anonymised attack from anybody with access to a pub- lic PC or control of botnet: physical access to the net- work is no longer needed, so installing state of the art intrusion protection systems is vital.


trained to consume media wherever they are on the best screen possible. You can’t force this generation to play in one spot, we have to allow them to take the game wher- ever they want.


WHAT ARE THE SPECIFIC MOBILE/TABLET SECURITY ISSUES AND SHOULD WE EXPECT MORE FRAUDULENT USE FROM THIS TECHNOLOGY?


Neill Whyte, Head of Product Channels, Microgaming - As mobile technology continues to grow, unsurprisingly the potential for fraud grows too. But that’s not specific to the gaming industry – it’s a problem for everyone. Unencrypted public Wi-Fi net- works and scams such as Rogue Tech Support sites offering faked assistance with device problems, are just two examples.


Unfortunately, there is research to suggest that mobile and tablets come with security issues - the 2013 Javelin Strategy & Research Identity Fraud Report found that tablet users (in the U.S.) are 80 per cent more likely to become victims of identity fraud than all consumers – 9.6 per cent for tablet owners compared to 5.3 per cent


There is no difference in dealing with security issues on mobile/ tablet devices as opposed to web or other platforms. We ensure players details are kept


strictly secured regardless of the platform used.


of all consumers. With this in mind, it’s important for tablet users to secure their devices.


Derrick Morton, CEO of FlowPlay and Vegas World - Mobile devices (tablets included) have a some- what lower risk profile for fraud. Personal computers are open systems with many tools available to even the most amateur of hackers. These tools are widely shared over the internet and capable of a wider variety exploits. Mobile devices aren't as open and there are fewer hack- ing tools available. Of course, highly skilled individuals are capable of creating exploits and using their deep


This becomes particularly critical where HTML5 and modern device support allows use of state of the art technologies such as Secure Web Sockets (wss) with newer technologies: these provide faster responses and lower bandwidth consumption for consumers, but as with all newer technologies, technology providers must be continually alert for new exploits.


However, clean design and adherence to well under- stood internet security principles such as those espoused by OWASP should not mean that fraudulent use will increase: the technologies in question are the same to those used across the entire internet sector and therefore can benefit from the same understandings and approaches.


Luke Davis, Marketing Director, Playtech - From our point of view, there is no difference in dealing with security issues on mobile/tablet devices as opposed to web or other platforms. We ensure players details are kept strictly secured regardless of the platform used.


Ashley Lang, Founder and CEO of Odobo - Mobile devices are inherently more vulnerable to theft or loss, however, device makers are getting ever-more vigilant about (a) making sure that users can disable or wipe


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