devices like cellphones and mobile devices as the tendency to use them as cracking gateways become more prevalent in the weeks to come.
Another interesting attack highlighted by D'Aguanno was "blackjacking," or hijacking legitimate users' BlackBerry devices and replacing them on the network with rogue devices.
The devices, made by Research In Motion in Canada, would then act as doorways that let hackers slip behind fire walls and seek out unprotected computers in a company's network, according to D'Aguanno.
Jesse D'Aguanno of Praetorian Global made a "BlackBerry Attack Toolkit" demonstration available for download at the company's website along with "BBProxy" software that exploits the vulnerability. D'Aguanno hid attacker software code in a tic-tac-toe game that, if downloaded and played on a BlackBerry, secretly invaded the network linked to the handled device.
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