A ten-year-old hacker, who participated in the programme at the Defcon-hackersbijeenkomst, a vulnerability revealed in Android and iOS games. The exploit is available when the internal clock is manipulated.
The young hacker, who operates under the alias CyFi, was annoyed with the long waits for to FarmVille-like games, reported the BBC. The teenager started it with the internal clock of a mobile phone to play. Among other things, by wi-fi to turn off could the beveiligingsmechanismes of such simulation games be circumvented. Also the small steps increment of the time would not be detected.
Through these manipulations with the internal clock would be a number of games for Android and iOS are vulnerable to light. Which games exactly are to fall, let CyFi still in the middle. The hacker wants the developers the chance to get the hole in time to close.
CyFi did her disclosure at Defcon Kids, a new youth program that is part of the normal Defcon-hackersbijeenkomst. The discovery of the vulnerability by the ten-year-old has now been confirmed by independent veiligheidsonderzoekers and reminiscent of ‘hacks’ that in the 80’s and 90’s were performed on pc-software to, for example, trialperiodes to extend. Mobile operating systems seem, however, still susceptible to this technique.