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spyware on Blackberries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Jul 16 08:26:40 2009
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:45:26 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired27b/~3/CFV8MEwH_rM/
A BlackBerry update that a United Arab Emirates service provider pushed
out to its customers contains U.S.-made spyware that would allow the
company or others to siphon and read their e-mail and text messages,
according to a researcher who examined it.
The update was billed as a =E2=80=9Cperformance enhancement patch=E2=80=9D =
by the
UAE-based phone and internet service provider Etisalat, which issued
the patch for its 100,000 subscribers.
...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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