From smb@cs.columbia.edu Fri Jul 6 02:30:50 2018 From: "Steven M. Bellovin" To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: spyware on Blackberries Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:30:50 +0000 Message-ID: <172289260092.3881296.10230145333844299543.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7476380378693684501==" --===============7476380378693684501== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 b performance enhancement patchb 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============7476380378693684501==--