Tyler Shields on the BlackBerry Spyware and the Coming Wave of Smartphone Attacks

Dennis Fisher talks with Tyler Shields of Veracode about his BlackBerry spyware application, txsBBSPY, the coming wave of smartphone attacks and his lack of surprise about the Google Aurora attack. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...

Chris Wysopal, Veracode

Chris was one of the first security researchers I met, in 2000, when he and the rest of the L0pht had just become part of @stake. I’ve probably interviewed him more often than anyone else on this list and he’s helped me with dozens of stories over the years. He always had five minutes to explain...

BlackBerry Spyware Package Shown at ShmooCon

This video demonstrates a proof-of-concept BlackBerry spyware package developed by Tyler Shields, one of Veracode’s senior security researchers...

An Analysis of the BlackBerry Spyware

From Zero in a Bit Chris Eng Yesterday it was reported by various media outlets that a recent BlackBerry software update from Etisalat a UAE-based carrier contained spyware that would intercept emails and text messages and send copies to a central Etisalat server. We decided to take a look to fin...

Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Pidgin formerly Gaim is an instant messaging client for a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin: Veracode reported a boundary error in the "XMPP SOCKS5 bytestream server" when initiating an outgoing file transfer...