10-year-old hacker finds zero-day flaw in games !!!

[INDRANIL]

LAS VEGAS--A 10-year-old hacker who goes by the pseudonym CyFi revealed today at DefCon 19 a zero-day exploit in games on iOS and Android devices that independent researchers have confirmed as a new class of vulnerability. The girl from California first discovered the flaw around January 2011 because she "started to get bored" with the pace of farm-style games.

Speaking to CNET about an hour before her presentation, CyFi said, "It was hard to make progress in the game, because it took so long for things to grow. So I thought, 'Why don't I just change the time?'" Most of the games she discovered the exploit in have time-dependent factors. For example, planting corn might take 10 real-time hours to mature in the game. Manually advancing the phone or tablet's clock forced the game further ahead than it really was, opening up the exploit.

She is not revealing at this time which games are affected because of reasonable disclosure, thus giving the vendors that make the affected games a chance to respond.

While many games will detect and block this kind of manipulation, CyFi said that she discovered some ways around those detections. Disconnecting the phone from Wi-Fi made it harder to stop, as did making incremental clock adjustments.

CyFi's mother, who must remain anonymous to protect her daughter's identity, told CNET that at the end of CyFi's presentation at DefCon Kids they would offer a $100 reward to the young hacker who found the most games with this exploit over the following 24 hours. The reward is sponsored by AllClearID, a identity protection company that is also sponsoring the DefCon Kids. This is the first year of DefCon Kids programming at the conference, a reflection of the fact that members of the hacking community are getting older and raising families.



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[Bearcat]

A 10 year old hacker, huh? As song writer, as well as fellow Minnesota, Bob Dylan once sang, "The times they are a changin' "
All I remember doing at that age was being outdoors and playing games with kids from the neighborhood.

[INDRANIL]

Same here I was the naughtiest among them .

[Bearcat]

Same here I was the naughtiest among them .

I was the good boy, who never did anything wrong!

[ted]

Same here I was the naughtiest among them .

same here my friend poor old Bearcat he's a rose among thorns

take a look here this is the kind of behaviour me and INDRANIL would get up to when we were 10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwNJla8WvoY

[hellnoire]

When I was ten, I was still messing around with the C64 and reading a huge bunch.

Wise kid, go far, and not as a cracker.

[Bearcat]

Hey Ted, truth be told, my dad always claimed that he "spanked my behind" more times, than he did all of my 6 sisters combined!

Nowadays that would be considered "child abuse" wouldn't it?

[INDRANIL]

Nice ted . Finally you've cleared everything about yourself Bearcat .

[Bearcat]

Finally you've cleared everything about yourself Bearcat .

I've always heard that confession is good for the soul Indra!