BlackBerry Digger

Well, in this beloved homeland, the BlackBerry is phenomenal. If Uncle Sam in the country this device is more widely used by businesses, in our country precisely BlackBerry widely circulated in the hands of the teenagers, housewives, and celebrities.

Support for wireless messaging and push e-mail that it managed a free BlackBerry to the popularity ladder. But be careful!

It is precisely its ability to receive and send e-mail anywhere and anytime BlackBerry vulnerable to attack. BlackBerry hacking could lurk anyone. Especially in the ground water, BlackBerry users typically use BIS (BlackBerry Internet Service). This means that he himself is responsible for the security configuration of the device.

Ahmad Muammar WK, an IT consultant from Hernis Consulting, has been testing the robustness of BlackBerry defense. The result, SSL security features, encryption, proxy, and others in that the device was not powerful. There are still gaps that could be exploited by an attacker.

Two attacks that can be done on the BlackBerry by Ahmad is ARP spoofing and DNS spoofing. Fortunately for ARP spoof attack, the attacker difficult to get a full state routing. "This we prove after repeated test," said Ammar, Ahmad nickname is also known by the alias y3dips.

Well if you want to know more about security on the BlackBerry, please follow the seminar Hacker's Day 2009 which will be held on November 7 at the Summit ROOM, JCC, Jakarta. There Ammar will describe attacks on the BlackBerry and how to recognize it.

Besides Ahmad Muammar WK, was also present and spoke for several internet network security expert others. Call it Richardus Eko Indrajit (Head of Indonesia Security Incident Response Team on Internet Infrastructure / ID-SIRTII), Budi Rahardjo (Senior IT Security Concultant), Anselm Ricky, Gildas Deograt (Head of Indonesia Safety Community), and Anvie Ansav (Antivirus Consultant AVI) . They each will discuss Hacking Facebook, BlackBerry Hacking, Cyber-6 (Six), IT Security Trend, IT Security Illusion, and Antivirus Trend.