Is Your BlackBerry Your Best Friend And Your Spy? Security Study And Your BlackBerry

February 7th, 2010 admin

I ran across this very interesting article that also has a video that demonstrates how a hacker can send messages to your BlackBerry and what information they can access off your BlackBerry with only a pc and the right program, and has tips to protect your BlackBerry. SMobile Systems Global Threat Center also released a study on the Proof-Of-Concept Malicious Applications. You really should check this out… Chris Eng from VERACODE posted this excellent article “ Is Your BlackBerry App Sying On You? ”  which elaborates on a demonstration done by Tyler Shields. Who is Tyler Shields ? He is Senior Security…


Originally posted on blackberrysync

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