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10-year-old hacked into farm games
The little girl who goes by the handle CyFi told the DefCon Kids crowd that she had discovered a bug in several games for Apple and Android smartphones.
Most folks at DefCon are young adult males.
But a 10-year-old girl stole the show.
The little girl who goes by the handle CyFi told the DefCon Kids crowd that she had discovered a bug in several games for Apple and Android smartphones.
CNET reports that CyFi got frustrated with the progress in some of those farm-themed games, so she decided to change the time within the game.
She was able to force the game to go faster, exposing the cyber loophole.
CyFi isn’t telling which games contain the flaw, to give the companies time to fix the problems.
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