“A Blackberry firmware update pushed out to subscribers of United Arab Emirates carrier Etisalat contained spyware, Research in Motion confirmed Tuesday,” Robert McMillan reports for IDG News Service.
“About a week ago, Blackberry users in the UAE began complaining that an update pushed out to Etisalat subscribers was killing battery life on their phones. The update was supposed to improve Blackberry performance, but after some investigation, technical users reported that it actually contained software that could spy on users activities,” McMillan reports.
“On Tuesday, Blackberry’s manufacturer, Research in Motion, confirmed that diagnosis and offered a new firmware update, designed to remove the spyware,” McMillan reports. “Etisalat has described the problem as a ‘slight technical fault.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: The spyware was probably counting how many times each BlackBerry user visited www.apple.com/iphone. No wonder it was killing their battery life.
