BlackBerry vows to out-do Android rivals on patching
True to form, BlackBerry will use frequent patching to distinguish its new Android Priv handset from the Android pack.
True to form, BlackBerry will use frequent patching to distinguish its new Android Priv handset from the Android pack.
Earlier this month, BlackBerry announced that they are absorbing the mobile device management (MDM) vendor and competitor Good Technology for $425 million in cash to secure mobile communications domination. A rather ironic move, given that it was Good’s MDM solution that ultimately led to BlackBerry’s device downfall, but for the most part, this is a smart and logical step for the smartphone manufacturer and service provider.
Responding to an accusatory blog post, BlackBerry has again denied that its embedded operating system caused the potentially dangerous vulnerability recently demonstrated in Chrysler Jeep Cherokees.
Joab Jackson | 11 Aug | Read more
BlackBerry continues to shift its focus from selling mobile phones to securing them -- as well as other portable devices, and increasingly connected items that are part of the Internet of things.
Joab Jackson | 24 Jul | Read more
Government organisations are setting the pace in Australia and New Zealand as they race to implement tighter document controls to rein in the flexibility afforded by newly-mobile computing environments, the local head of secure collaboration software maker BlackBerry believes.
David Braue | 23 Jul | Read more
Android smartphones fail basic reset test passed by BlackBerry and Apple
John E Dunn | 25 May | Read more
Apple's iPhone and iPad long ago pushed out the BlackBerry as the corporate standard for mobile devices, in all but the highest-security environments. Google -- whose Android platform reigns outside the corporate world -- is now trying to push out Apple, with a new effort called Android for Work. And Samsung is upping the game with a new version of its own Android security suite, Knox.
Galen Gruman | 19 Mar | Read more
US warns airlines of onboard hacking...drone lands on Japanese PM's office...Google adds push notifications to Chrome...and more tech news
IDG News Service staff | 22 Apr | Read more
BlackBerry is returning to the tablet market -- this time with the help of Samsung Electronics, IBM and Secusmart, the German encryption specialist BlackBerry bought last year.
Peter Sayer | 15 Mar | Read more
BlackBerry has confirmed BlackBerry OS 10, BES 12 and 10 and other products are affected by the FREAK flaw, but it has no patch.
A global effort to improve awareness of mobile-app privacy policies could gain further weight after Apple released new figures confirming that mobile apps continue to be bought and downloaded at record-breaking pace.
David Braue | 09 Jan | Read more
It seems like something out of an old episode of Mission Impossible or Inspector Gadget--an ultra-secure phone that self destructs. But such a phone might be close to reality, courtesy of Boeing and BlackBerry.
Nick Mediati | 22 Dec | Read more
From rattled airline passengers who fear the coming of smartphones to jurors who don't know a smartphone from a tablet, here are some of the colorful quotes from IT news in 2014.
Nancy Weil | 17 Dec | Read more
Much of the problem with today's security environment is that it's hard to know who to trust – but the US Department of Justice believes it has the answer: companies should trust the government's efforts around cybersecurity more than they currently do, the DOJ is suggesting. The same goes in Australia, where the newly formed Australian Cyber Security Centre was soliciting reports of security breaches to inform its work
David Braue | 15 Dec | Read more
Malware believed to be part of a nation-state espionage campaign and reminiscent of previous attacks has been caught targeting mobile devices and PCs of executives, diplomats and military.