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Blackberry releases first security fixes for new Z10 smartphone

2013-06-18/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

A posting from Naked Security: Blackberry released two security bulletins yesterday, fixing flaws in its software for the Blackberry Playbook and Blackberry Z10 smartphone. BSRT-2013-005 affects both the Z10 and the Playbook and fixes vulnerabilities in the bundled Adobe Flash Player. This raises an important question in my mind, though. Why on earth has Blackberry launched […]

BlackBerry Z10 incurs ‘critical’ security warning

2013-06-18/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

A posting in CNET New in there Security & Privacy Section: BlackBerry has issued a security advisory notice to those who have bought its flagship Z10 touchscreen smartphone — the first BlackBerry 10 device to launch following the company’s bid for revival, back in February. The advisory, which was issued last week, notes a bug that relates to […]

Blackberry releases first security fixes for new Z10 smartphone

2013-06-18/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

BlackBerry Z10 incurs ‘critical’ security warning

2013-06-18/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

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Blackberry releases first security fixes for new Z10 smartphone

2013-06-18/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

A posting from Naked Security:

Blackberry released two security bulletins yesterday, fixing flaws in its software for the Blackberry Playbook and Blackberry Z10 smartphone.

BSRT-2013-005 affects both the Z10 and the Playbook and fixes vulnerabilities in the bundled Adobe Flash Player.

This raises an important question in my mind, though. Why on earth has Blackberry launched a new mobile operating system with Flash support, knowing full well the number of vulnerabilities and in the wild attacks against it?

Apple was first to shun Flash while some Android handset makers bragged about Flash support. For about a month. Then Adobe pulled the plug on its own Android package.

This seemed to have resolved the issue and HTML5 was the winner for mobile interactive content. “Winner by default,” or so I thought.

Now you might think it is a “nice to have” so long as Blackberry keeps it up-to-date and makes it easy to apply to your device.Adobe released Flash fixes yesterday too, right?

While that is true, the Flash fixes released by Blackberry yesterday were from back in January. Yes, they fixed the vulnerabilities described inAPSB13-01.

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BlackBerry Z10 incurs ‘critical’ security warning

2013-06-18/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

A posting in CNET New in there Security & Privacy Section:

BlackBerry has issued a security advisory notice to those who have bought its flagship Z10 touchscreen smartphone — the first BlackBerry 10 device to launch following the company’s bid for revival, back in February.

The advisory, which was issued last week, notes a bug that relates to BlackBerry Protect, its security and backup utility, rather than the phone’s operating system itself.

According to the advisory, an escalation of privilege vulnerability exists in the software of some Z10 phones that could allow a malicious app to “take advantage” of weak permissions in the in-built security software. This could allow a hacker to gain access to the device’s password, and intercept and prevent the device from being wiped.

The “critical” factor is that the security flaw could dupe the device’s user into installing an app which resets the device password through BlackBerry Protect. Though the device may be in the user’s hands, its data is under the control of the hacker.

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