BlackBerry PhoneSnoop app can spy on calls
Published: 28 Oct 2009 08:21 GMT
The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, US-Cert, warned BlackBerry users on Tuesday about a new program called PhoneSnoop that allows someone to remotely eavesdrop on phone conversations.
The PhoneSnoop application must be installed on the phone by someone who has physical access to it or by tricking the user into downloading it, the Cert advisory said.
The author of the app, Sheran Gunasekera, director of security for Hermis Consulting in Jakarta, Indonesia, says it was not written to do any harm, but rather to warn of the dangers that still exist with the BlackBerry.
For more on this story, see US-Cert warns about free BlackBerry spyware app on CNET News.
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