14 DAY TRIAL // Early this week, BlackBerry's Senior Vice President Scott Totzke said that his company planned to launch a small update that would patch the Heartbleed vulnerability in the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM).
The Canadian company's official claims that the risk of Android users to be affected by Heartbleed is small given the fact that the BlackBerry’s security technology has been designed to make it very difficult for someone who wishes to exploit the vulnerability to actually manage to gain data through an attack.
Apparently, a hacker would need to perfectly time his attack in order to take advantage of this vulnerability: “it's a very complex attack that has to be timed in a very small window,” said Totzke.
Totzke also promised last weekend that BlackBerry would patch up Heartbleed in a future update that would land on Android and iOS devices by Friday, April 18.
True to its promise, the Canadian company has just released a new update for BBM for Android devices, which is now rolling out in stages. Aside from patching up the Heartbleed vulnerability, the new version may also bring some small bug fixes and minor improvements.
You can now download BBM for Android 2.1.1.53 for free via Google Play Store. Keep in mind that the application should be fully compatible with most devices powered by Android 2.3.3 and up.