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Security News for the Week Ending August 20, 2021

Well That Seems Like a Bit Over the Top A pharmacist in Illinois faces up to 120 years in prison for selling dozens of (I assume blank) Covid vaccine cards. The pharmacist sold 134 cards to 11 buyers for roughly $1276. He is being charged with theft of government property. That seems like a stretch, […]

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Blackberry WAS the Gold Standard For Security – Or Was It?

A specialized unit inside mobile firm BlackBerry has for years enthusiastically helped intercept user data — including BBM messages — to help in hundreds of police investigations in dozens of countries, a CBC News investigation reveals For years we always thought Blackberry was the security standard that everyone else was measured by.  In April we […]

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We Only Thought Blackberry Was Secure

Blackberry CEO John Chen said that tech companies must balance customer privacy with lawful government interests.  The translation of this is “we have given the Blackberry keys to a variety of governments”.  And we only THOUGHT that Blackberrys were secure. One point that is important to understand is that for companies that have their own […]

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