Friday, March 29, 2024

Black Hat 2013 session on BlackBerry 10 security fails to offer anything interesting

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Remember when we told you about the Black Hat session that would be covering BlackBerry 10 OS security? At the time, the description sounded as though Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, who is a research associate at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg, had some interesting things to say but as we now know, he didn’t have anything overly interesting to say at all.

Rather than dropping a bombshell of knowledge on folks, he ended up stating nothing outside of the obvious for BlackBerry and most users. His biggest piece of news was that BlackBerry 10 contains QUIP, a diagnostic tool that has the ability to collect various user data, including voice and audio communications, screen captures and memory dumps which can be sent to BlackBerry and it’s off by default.

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