Facebook Blackberry App scans your emails

Facebook SPAM on BlackBerry Devices

I always thought the Facebook Application for BlackBerry was a buggy, slow piece of junk. Now I have noticed that this application is being abused by spammers to propagate Viagra and Percocet SPAM. The screen shot to the right is an actual Facebook notification I received on my BlackBerry. There seems to be an interesting bug in the Facebook Application for BlackBerry in which a spammer can spoof the “facebookmail.com” domain to have SPAM messages show up in your notifications list within the BlackBerry Facebook application. This only works if you have the Facebook for BlackBerry Application installed AND you have an email account configured on your BlackBerry (yes, this includes a corporate email account as well). The email account you have configured on your BlackBerry is where you actually receive the SPAM message, not through Facebook.

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Just say no! BlackBerry + Facebook = Security FAIL

What makes this troublesome from an information protection standpoint is that, the Facebook application is actively scanning your email inbox.  In the case of many, many Blackberry users, this is not your personal email, but your corporate email.  Of the 13,934,752 monthly active users (according to facebook.com) I’m sure you all read the EULA when you installed the app right?  That’s another post…

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