Wired has a story out of DefCon picturing Blackberries as the perfect backdoor into your corporate network. Since many cop orations inherently trust the blackberry straight in through their firewalls, it might be worth a read.

The program, called proxy, has to be placed on a Blackberry either physically or as a Trojan horse delivered by e-mail. Once installed, it causes the Blackberry to call back to the attacker’s system in the background, opening a communications channel between the attacker and the company’s internal network.

Details are sketchy, and I can’t find the mentioned “documents on its website” or get to their website at all, but the fact that he says he’ll release the app in the next week or so doesn’t make me feel all warm and fuzzy.

Blackberry a Juicy Hacker Target [Wired]

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