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Russian Software Company Says Its App Can Crack BlackBerry Security

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 2, 2011 @04:25AM from the put-down-that-wrench dept.

AZA43 leaps into the ranks of accepted submitters, writing "Russian security software vendor Elcomsoft has released an app that it claims can determine BlackBerry handheld passwords. The software supposedly hacks the BlackBerry password via an advanced handheld security setting that's meant to encrypt data stored on a user's memory card. And a hacker doesn't even need to have the BlackBerry to determine a password, just the media card."

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Re:Do Russians contribute anything useful? by thht · 2011-10-02 04:43 · Score: 2, Funny

Kaspersky?
Re:Do Russians contribute anything useful? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-02 04:46 · Score: 4, Funny

Are there any Russians that contribute something positive to the world of software?
Tetris alone puts them way ahead of most countries.
Why does this matter? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-02 05:05 · Score: 0, Funny

RIM will not even exists within a year or so. I'ts only a matter of time before they get completely slaughtered and file for bankrupcy etc..
Re:Do Russians contribute anything useful? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2011-10-02 05:37 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm told that they are currently hunting for a third, because they think that a Mismanage à trois would be totally hot...
In other news by G3ckoG33k · 2011-10-02 05:38 · Score: 4, Funny

In other news "Other Russians Say They Cracked BlackBerry Years Ago" but kept mum about, for "financial and business reasons". ;)