More BlackBerry image problems: RIM warns of BES security vulnerabilities

If it weren’t enough finding themselves (rather unfairly in my point of view) in the firing line regarding how the BlackBerry Messaging service (BBM) was being used by British rioters, with calls for the service to be suspended, RIM now finds itself with a different kind of BlackBerry image problem.

RIM, the firm behind the popular BlackBerry smartphone, has issued a warning that a number of vulnerabilities have been found in its enterprise software (known as BlackBerry Enterprise Server, or BES).

According to RIM, if the vulnerabilities were exploited by remote hackers they could run malicious code on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server run by many firms.

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the cybersecurity industry, having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky, or drop him an email.