Blackberry
has now decided to offer a secure server for its BBM enterprise users
across platforms to exchange secure messages through a new IM service.
To prevent anything similar to the FREAK vulnerability, this service
will use encryption keys which are generated by the communicating mobile
devices themselves.
Up
until now, this service was only available for BB handsets. This
service will offer BBM Protected users to have secure chats with
non-BlackBerry Protected workers at other companies or with customers.
The latter will have to download the free version for their smartphone
to use this feature.
BlackBerry
mentioned on their blog that, BBM Protected will offer an
enterprise-grade secure instant messaging service with all the features
of a consumer IM app. It added that, the BlackBerry innovation will
effectively prevent ‘man in the middle’ hacker attacks and provide
greater security than competing encryption schemes.
BBM Protected is available through an extra subscription service via BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) from BlackBerry.
The
company is also offering a 30-day free trial. The Android version will
work with Android 4.0 or higher and with BBM 2.6 or higher.
Posted by : Gizmeon
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