BlackBerry has spyware risk too, researcher says
February 15, 2010 Computer News
It has unfortunately come to the attention of researchers that the popular BlackBerry isn’t immune to threats from malicious applications. As we can imagine this poses many threats 
for users worldwide.
A researcher at the Veracode Research Lab recently write a piece of spyware that that allowed someone to actually shoot an SMS command to the phone and have the contact list forwarded to your own e-mail address in a demonstration. With another short text command, you are able to get someone’s BlackBerry to e-mail you any SMS messages that it sends.
It may be perceived as trivial to write this type of code yet it proves the significance as well as the risk factors which are actively involved as well as taking place.
The researcher whose name is Tyler Shields quotes the following:”TXSBBSpy “can take data from the phone, both in real-time and in snapshots, and send it off via SMS or e-mail to any Web server or TCP [Transmission Control Protocol] or UDP [User Diagram Protocol] network connections,” Shields said.
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