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Australia is reporting that a BlackBerry device has been cracked after five years: An encrypted BlackBerry device that was cracked five years after it was first seized by police is poised to be the key piece of evidence in one of the state’s longest-running drug importation investigations. In April, new technology "capabilities" allowed authorities to probe the encrypted device…. No… Continue reading BlackBerry Phone Cracked
BlackBerry introduced BlackBerry AtHoc Managed Service. BlackBerry AtHoc Managed Service delivers the full featured BlackBerry AtHoc system as a service managed and delivered by BlackBerry. The service allows any organization, of any size, to quickly e… Continue reading BlackBerry AtHoc Managed Service: Crisis communications solutions for all organizations
BlackBerry and KPMG’s UK Cyber Response Services uncovered a new ransomware strain that uses an obscure file format to avoid detection, according to new research published Thursday. After researchers conducted forensic investigations at a European educational institution, they uncovered that attackers had gained access to the unnamed institution through an internet-connected remote desktop server, according to the Blackberry Research and Intelligence Team. The ransomware, which Blackberry has dubbed Tycoon, uses a little known Java image format to avoid detection and then encrypts file servers, locking administrators out unless they pay a ransom. Tycoon is highly targeted and has affected only approximately a dozen victims, BlackBerry’s Vice President of GUARD Services and Director of GUARD Threat Hunting & Intelligence, Eric Milam and Claudiu Teodorescu, told CyberScoop. The ransomware has generally targeted small- and medium-sized education and software entities so far. And although the new ransomware has only affected a limited number of victims, Tycoon is a reminder that even […]
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BlackBerry announced the appointment of Thomas Eacobacci as President. Eacobacci will be responsible for driving BlackBerry’s sales, field marketing, engineering, and customer support for BlackBerry Spark and BlackBerry IoT Solutions. BlackBerry … Continue reading Thomas Eacobacci joins BlackBerry as President
As someone who was at both BlackBerry and Android during their heydays, my biggest learning takeaway is that product experience trumps everything else. Continue reading Is Zoom the next Android, or the next BlackBerry?
Five related APT groups operating in the interest of the Chinese government have systematically targeted Linux servers, Windows systems and mobile devices running Android while remaining undetected for nearly a decade, according to BlackBerry. The repo… Continue reading APT attacks targeting Linux, Windows and Android remained undetected for nearly a decade
The annual Threat Report published by BlackBerry Limited finds that while financial services and the retail sector continue to bear the brunt of most cybersecurity attacks, cybercriminals have expanded their targets in the last year to include IT serv… Continue reading Threat Report: Cybercriminals Expand Vertical Focus
BlackBerry announced at RSA Conference 2020 the BlackBerry Spark platform with a new unified endpoint security (UES) layer which can work with BlackBerry UEM and other unified endpoint management (UEM) solutions to deliver BlackBerry’s One Agent, One C… Continue reading BlackBerry launches new UES platform for zero trust
In case you thought that we learned everything we need to know to land on the Moon fifty years ago, think again. NASA still has a lot of questions, and has scheduled the first of many commercial missions designed to fill in the blanks. As part of the Artemis program, …read more
The brand keeping BlackBerry phones alive across most of the globe, TCL Communications, plans to stop selling BlackBerry phones later this year. From a report: In a tweet this morning, TCL announced that it “will no longer be selling” BlackBerry-brande… Continue reading BlackBerry Phones Could Disappear as TCL Partnership Ends