Researcher Highlights Blackberry Security Flaw

Filed in archive News , PDAs , RIM by Rico Mossesgeld on August 7, 2006

The majority of Blackberry users are corporate clients, and more often than not, they rely on an internal company server to receive emails. Because of this, Blackberries are considered trusted machines, whose intentions are always regarded as good. In short, a family member you can trust your secrets with.

But as many movies and stories would like you to believe, even family members commit betrayal. Wired reports on a researcher, Mr. Jesse D'Aguanno, highlighting how a Blackberry can be exploited to gain access to company computers. He wrote a program called BBProxy to illustrate his findings, and presented them to a recently concluded hacker convention.

To his credit, Mr. D'Aguanno met with Blackberry makers Research in motion. Apparently, he seeks to raise awareness about push e-mail security:

"Securely deploying it shouldn't be that hard but there hasn't been a whole lot of documentation provided by Research in Motion in the past on securely deploying the Blackberries."

Will We Ever Be Safe? As Batman once said in The Batman, "There is no such thing as absolute security"

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Response from: Craig Johnston (08/12/06 5:56pm)

This isn't such a big deal. Take a listen to the author of BBProxy talking about it on this podcast episode.
http://mca.libsyn.com/

Response from: Rico (08/12/06 6:31pm)

Great link Craig! I still think the article is a big deal though; here's someone who discovers an exploit...then tells everyone how to guard against it. :)

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