Posts Tagged ‘Security Issues’

iPhone OS 3.0.1 released… GMM around the corner!

August 3rd, 2009

iPhone-OS-3.0.1-Software-UpdateiPhone OS 3.0.1 was released to “fix” the infamous text message vulnerability.  This was expected and should have been done quite some time ago, but better late than never.  While this patch doesn’t really change too much if anything else, it does move us one step closer to Mobile OSX 3.1…. With that comes buzz about background applications and a slew of other major impovements.

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BES Patching… An IT Nightmare!

July 30th, 2009

bes

Ok, so patching any server is never just a walk in the park… but it’s not supposed to be the sort of thing which has to be attempted more than once.  Each failed attempt makes “higher ups” more and more wary of the competency of the IT staff.  So what types of concerns are there with the BES patch process? » Read more: BES Patching… An IT Nightmare!

BlackBerry PIN/Service Book/Activation issues

July 24th, 2009

BB-outage

Incident for BlackBerry PIN to PIN service for subscribers of “The Americas

Network”

Impact: BlackBerry subscribers may experience delays in receiving PIN

messages and may receive an “x” when sending PIN messages.

Incident Window Start Date and Time: 23 July 2009 14:46:00 (EDT).

Duration: Ongoing

Seems like BlackBerry’s PIN messaging went down for a short while last night.  This would affect all those users wishing to send super-secrect messages…   » Read more: BlackBerry PIN/Service Book/Activation issues