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BBM has evolved from a pure messaging application (text and video) to a social eco-system unifying chat, social, commerce and services such as bill payments, top-up, vouchers/coupons, games, news, video, shopping and travel, which provides an immediate opportunity to offer payments services. The joint venture will also offer payment solutions to other e-commerce players in Indonesia.
Source: BBM Partner with Ant Financial, Bringing More Payments to BBM – UTB Blogs
There’s a new BlackBerry smartphone, but it’s not the recently announced KEYone. BlackBerry fans in Indonesia will soon have access to a BlackBerry device developed exclusively for them. It’s called the Aurora
Source: BlackBerry announces the Aurora smartphone in Indonesia
In case you have missed the announcement of the Blackberry Mercury AKA KEYone …
CrackBerry Kevin is coming out of retirement to celebrate TEN Years of CrackBerry and the launch of the BlackBerry Mercury!! It’s gonna get c-r-a-z-y in here!
Source: The Good ‘Ole Days of CrackBerry Are Coming Back for our 10th Anniversary! | CrackBerry.com
Want a shiny new case for your classic Commodore Amiga 1200? You’re in luck! A new project to bring updated, multi-coloured cases for the A1200 is here, but how do they compare to the original? I take a look.
If you’ve yet to get the BlackBerry 10.3.3 update or are simply just looking to a newer version than the one you have, you can now download the OS 10.3.3.2205 autoloader files needed to manually install it.
Source: BlackBerry OS 10.3.3.2205 autoloader files now available! | CrackBerry.com
Karsten Majok from the Commodore Amiga Facebook group has just informed us of the release of ‘FS-UAE 2.8.3’, which is an update to one of the best Amiga Emulators with a full GUI that you can use for Amiga based gaming.
Source: Indie Retro News: FS-UAE 2.8.3 – An Amiga Emulator with a great GUI gets a new update for 2017
Whatsapp is the leading purveyor of metadata collection, a “cancer of mobile apps” perhaps. It has spread its tentacles far and wide and is making a mess of users’ privacy.WhatsApp also collects device-specific information when you install, access, or use their service — such as the model of your phone, its operating system, and information from your browser, IP address, and mobile network — including your phone number.Why should so much information be of interest to them? This goes against what they always claimed. That user privacy comes foremost.Please remember that their encryption protocol implementation is closed source; it’s proprietary. At any point in time, your messages can be easily seen by law enforcement. Who can collect it is a matter of debate but they are only interested in metadata which is more than enough to track any user. In fact, WhatsApp leaks your metadata like a sieve. Why do you want to stay invested in it?
The company that sells digital forensics and mobile hacking tools to others has itself been hacked.Israeli firm Cellebrite, the popular company that provides digital forensics tools and software to help law enforcement access mobile phones in investigations, has had 900 GB of its data stolen by an unknown hacker.But the hacker has not yet publicly released anything from the stolen data archive, which includes its customer information, user databases, and a massive amount of technical data regarding its hacking tools and products.Instead, attackers are looking for possible opportunities to sell the access to Cellebrite system and data on a few selected IRC chat rooms, the hacker told Joseph Cox, contributor at Motherboard, who was contacted by the hacker and received a copy of the stolen data.Meanwhile, Cellebrite also admitted that it recently experienced “unauthorized access to an external web server,” and said that it is “conducting an investigation to determine the extent of the breach. The impacted server included a legacy database backup of my.Cellebrite, the company’s end user license management system.”
Source: Phone-Hacking Firm Cellebrite Got Hacked; 900GB Of Data Stolen