BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has issued a software fix for its mobile
email service after flaws were revealed at a hacking conference over the holiday
season.
A speaker called 'FX', from the Phenoelit hacking group, revealed the flaws
on 30 December at the 22nd annual
Chaos Communication
Congress in Berlin.
If exploited the flaws could have caused a denial of service attack against
BlackBerry handhelds and email servers.
"While 'FX' commended the BlackBerry on its overall security and software
coding, it also identified certain potential issues," said RIM in a statement.
"RIM has already developed software fixes for the issues and, although there
have been no customer reports of any actual problems, RIM has also provided
temporary precautionary measures that can be taken until customers are able to
implement the software updates."
The company has applied a software upgrade to its servers and issued an
advisory
on the problems. The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team has also issued an
update
on the issue.
BlackBerry users are being urged to upgrade immediately.
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