{"id":4268,"date":"2009-07-23T03:45:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T19:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2009-07-24T01:29:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T17:29:37","slug":"beware-blackberry-update-is-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/23\/beware-blackberry-update-is-spyware\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware: BlackBerry Update is Spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes upgrade can be no good. In this case, A Blackberry software update was sent to users by United Arab Emirates carrier Etisalat and it stated that it is an &#8216;upgrade&#8230; required for service enhancements.&#8217; However, what the software did was it could allow outsiders to access private information on user&#8217;s phones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4269\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/23\/beware-blackberry-update-is-spyware\/blackberry\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blackberry.jpg?fit=330%2C330&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"330,330\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"blackberry\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blackberry.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blackberry.jpg?fit=330%2C330&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4269 aligncenter\" title=\"blackberry\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blackberry.jpg?resize=330%2C330\" alt=\"blackberry\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blackberry.jpg?w=330&amp;ssl=1 330w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blackberry.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blackberry.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->BlackBerry was quick to announce that they were not aware or in anyway related to this software upgrade. From the source, people who upgraded the software experiences excessive battery drain. I could only guess that it might be due to the software working underneath the OS gathering data.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/Breaking%2BNews\/Tech%2Band%2BScience\/Story\/STIStory_406651.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to Read the Story from Straits Times<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>[ad#boxlist]<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/Breaking%2BNews\/Tech%2Band%2BScience\/Story\/STIStory_406651.html\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes upgrade can be no good. In this case, A Blackberry software update was sent to users by United Arab Emirates carrier Etisalat and it stated that it is an &#8216;upgrade&#8230; required for service enhancements.&#8217; However, what the software did was it could allow outsiders to access private information on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[728,1052],"class_list":["post-4268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-blackberry","tag-rim"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YKZ-16Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4271,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions\/4271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}