David Wiseman | Source | Vice President of Secure Communications at BlackBerry
David Wiseman
David provides executive-level product leadership through ideation, technical development, launch, sales, and marketing of innovative products across government, telecommunications, financial services, and automotive sectors. As the Vice President of Secure Communications for BlackBerry, he helps our customers apply technology to mission critical business and operational systems with a focus on communications, security, and safety.
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Vice President of Secure Communications
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Exclusive: The scale and ongoing threat of Chinese cyber espionage, with BlackBerry’s David Wiseman
BlackBerry’s VP of Secure Communications unpacks current Chinese telecommunications espionage campaigns, and what China’s next level of grey zone escalation may look like.
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Mobile Messaging Apps: A Growing Threat to Personal Data Security
David warns that apps like WhatsApp and Signal, perceived as secure, are vulnerable to malware like APT41's LightSpy. He states, "Users' metadata and personal information risk exposure." The belief that these apps are secure enough for sensitive data is misguided, leaving individuals at risk without proper security controls.
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Oh, totally.
I mean, countries have, even since there were carrier pigeons, they’ve tried to intercept communications. The difference here is that now, it’s more real time. It’s totally real time. It’s combined with some of the stuff we’re seeing, like AI processing, where you now have the ability, if you can listen into a voice call, if you can listen into messaging, and you know how people talk to each other, then you can build very convincing deep fakes very quickly.
You can take things like spoofing attacks and you can make them even more effective, because if you and I have been exchanging messages a lot over the past day, you’re going to be very open to the idea that I might send you another message, and your guard is going to be down, right? So, unlike the carrier pigeon days, now, they can actually initiate a kind of a real-time reaction, a real-time response from the recipient.
So I think that’s a new level in the game.
