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Surveillance

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Mice, Permissions and a Solution?

By ⋅ November 28, 2009 ⋅ One comment

The BlackBerry default application permissions should be one of the most important things to a BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) user. But how can these application permissions be monitored and checked for those times when they are changed (creating a potentially risky situation) and the user forgets to revert to its original setting? This post will highlight a possible mechanism of checking for the most critical permissions. There’s also some sample program source code that users can download and play with.

Team BlackBerryForums! Fu*k Yeah!

By ⋅ November 5, 2009 ⋅ 9 comments

I’m glad I don’t take things personally.  I am also a firm believer in the phrase “no good deed goes unpunished”.  I decided to post in both the CrackBerry Forums and BlackBerryForums communities that I’d released the program called Kisses.  It would appear, however, that the fact that I had designed both PhoneSnoop and Kisses [...]

The theory behind BlackBerry phone taps

By ⋅ October 31, 2009 ⋅ 8 comments

The new version of FlexiSpy (which I dissected and posted about) promises to allow a user to spy on a target when he is on a call.  They call it Call Interception.  The site says: “Call Interception is the ability to listen in to an active phone call on the target device. You specify the [...]

The Anatomy Of A Spyware Application – Part 1

By ⋅ October 31, 2009 ⋅ 14 comments

In keeping with the spirit of raising awareness, I’m pleased to present an in-depth look at the commercial spyware application known as FlexiSpy.  Looking at its creation date, the FlexiSpy domain started its online life in July of 2008 April of 2006, more than a three years ago [thanks Spyphoneguy for pointing that out].  The [...]

PhoneSnoop – Turn a BlackBerry into a portable bug

By ⋅ October 19, 2009 ⋅ 36 comments

I’m back at work after attending Hack in the Box security conference.  It was an excellent conference and I managed to catch up with a few friends and industry professionals.  The Malaysian conference is still by far bigger than the one held in Dubai.  This year saw roughly 600 people.  I also heard that the [...]

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