Female 10 years old hacker to find bugs in IOS and Android game

Íos : Greece | Aug 07, 2011 at 10:15 PM PDT

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Female 10 years old hacker to find bugs in IOS and Android game Her fourth-grade students in California (USA) won the respect of hacker announcing a flaw ever discovered in many games for devices running on two popular mobile platform today .

Hacker chatter nicknamed this CyFi presented his discoveries in the DefCon 19 security conference in America last week.

CyFi at DefCon 19 conference. Photo: CNet .

From April 1 / 2011, CyFi start to see some game farms fed by spending too much time waiting. For example, for the corn, the player must wait 10 hours to be able to harvest.

"So I thought why not try to push your time hurry up," CyFi share on CNet . With a game, simply CyFi clock adjustment device or tablet. Game also has a built mechanisms to prevent fraud CyFi time but still find the detour to fool the program, including the Wi-Fi off.

She did not reveal the game is being affected but have informed the developers to fix them.

bongmatinhmc is based in Cần Thơ, Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long, Vietnam, and is a Stringer for Allvoices.

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