University of Texas at Dallas computer scientists have devised a new weapon against video game players who cheat. But the mechanism can work for any massively multiplayer online (MMO) game that sends data traffic to a central server. Detecting cheating in MMO games can be challenging because the data that goes from a player’s computer to the game server is encrypted. The UT Dallas researchers’ approach eliminates the need for decrypted data and instead analyzes encrypted data traffic to and from the server in real time. Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Founders Chair in Engineering and Computer Science, professor of computer science and executive director of the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute at UT Dallas, is senior author of the study.