Thursday 10 November 2011

A ten years old girl finds flaws in mobile games

Numerous mobile devices may be exploited by a new vulnerability discovered by a ten year old girl.

The vulnerability, presented  at the DefCon hacker conference held in Las Vegas, consist in advancing the clock on a tablet or phone, which  open, in many games, a loophole that can be exploited. The bug was discovered by a girl after she got bored with the pace of farming games and start seeking ways to speed them up.

The girl said, while addressing the kids section of the conference: "The world of apps has obvious not thought about security, yet. Here is an import lesson they can learn from a Girl Scout. I'll show a new class of vulnerabilities I call TimeTraveler."

The vulnerability has been verified by various security researcher groups and individuals. The vulnerability is present with both Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.

3 comments:

  1. Superb...............I like it.

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  2. gr8, but really hard to believe its done by a 10 year old girl..........................

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  3. marvelous posting, keep it up. thanks a lot...

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