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BlackBerry 8900 asking for a NEW password

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Logan
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Hello all,

I have come across a BlackBerry 8900 which is doing something I have not seen before; the device is asking for a new password. Obviously without knowing what is going on, I have yet to enter one myself but has anyone else seen this and if so, does anyone know why the device is asking for a new one?

From my research so far it appears that the device was part of an IT/company policy and has been wiped. The policy however has remained on the device and is requesting the user enter a new password.

Any and all thoughts on this are most welcome!

Josh

 
Posted : 16/03/2012 5:24 pm
cyrus
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Maybe the BES requires a new password to be used every so often? In which case I think you would still need to enter the current password before you can change it…

 
Posted : 16/03/2012 5:42 pm
Logan
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I have a small update for anyone who is interested…

I decided to try a logical extraction of the device using XRY and to my surprise, it connected and obtained the bare minimum of pre-loaded files; sample BBThumbs.dat files etc. I then analysed the device using UFED Physical Analyser 2 and managed to obtain quite a lot of deleted data.

I guess the bottom line of this post is that when asking for a 'new' password, no password is currently set and the device can be analysed as normal. It also could mean that my previous theory was correct.

Again, any and all thoughts are welcome

 
Posted : 16/03/2012 6:34 pm
 RonS
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Josh,

Cellebrite UFED PA v2.5 that will be released in few weeks, will decode even more deleted data from a Blackberry Physical extraction.

Ron

 
Posted : 16/03/2012 11:19 pm
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