BlackJacking: Yay! Now I control your enterprise
August 11, 2006 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under BlackBerry, BlackJacking, Mobile Monitor
There’s a new term on the Internet and it’s called BlackJacking – using your BlackBerry to hack into a company’s ivory tower and get the latest gossip about their CEO.
Jesse D’Aguanno, director of security research at German firm Praetorian Global, gave a presentation on how to use the BlackBerry environment to circumvent perimeter defenses and directly attack hosts on a corporate intranet at last week’s DefCon conference in Vegas. The demo included a live presentation. Next week D’Aguanno plans to release source code for BBProxy, the tool used to conduct the attack, which he describes as “Blackjacking”.
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