New Delhi: BlackBerry, a global leader in secure mobile communications, on Tuesday announced that more of BlackBerry’s secure enterprise mobility solutions have been added to the open, flexible, enterprise-grade cloud computing platform Microsoft Azure.Enterprises can now opt to install and deploy the Good Dynamics Secure Mobility Platform by BlackBerry through Microsoft Azure to mobilize a broad range of business apps, including collaboration apps, ISV apps and custom-developed apps.

With Good Dynamics in Microsoft Azure, the growing number of businesses in emerging enterprise cloud environments can leverage enhanced security to ensure critical business data is never put at risk.“With BlackBerry´s Good Dynamics now on the Microsoft Azure platform, we continue to help protect customers’ data and enhance our ecosystem of business-critical apps,” said Steve Guggenheimer, Corporate Vice President, Developer Experience & Evangelism and Chief Evangelist, Microsoft Corp.

“As we work side-by-side with Microsoft we are providing customers with a breadth of new options to enhance and increase their mobile security,” said Billy Ho, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Product and Value Added Solutions, BlackBerry. “By utilizing Good Dynamics through the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, customers have more flexibility in their deployment of BlackBerry´s industry-leading solutions – without having to sacrifice user experience or introduce more complexity into their environments.”

Since March 2016, enterprises have been able to install and manage their BES12 deployment through the Microsoft Azure platform.

This means customers have full access to their BES12 licenses while benefiting from the Microsoft cloud architecture – without having to invest in their own IT infrastructure.Good Dynamics is also tightly integrated with BES12 for secure holistic end-to-end capabilities and is available in the Good Secure EMM Suites from BlackBerry.

Mumbai: An Indian white hat hacker has been awarded $10,080 (Rs 6.8 lakh approximately) by micro-blogging website Twitter for discovering a security flaw related to its video sharing service Vine.According to Hacker News, Avinash Singh, was responsible for discovering the flaw which rendered Twitter’s complete Vine source code publicly available. Twitter had started Vine in 2012 as a shot-video sharing platform where users can share six-second-long looping video clips.

The report pointed out that Singh was able to discover a Docker image for Vine using nifty Internet-wide scanning tool Censys.io. Docker, an open-cource container technology which helps run more apps on old servers, is gaining popularity among companies.The Docker images used by Vine, as stated by Singh, were publicly available online instead of being private. Singh was able to download approximately 80 images but he only downloaded ‘vinewww’.

After downloading the images, he ran the docker image vinewww with an interactive shell, which helped him retrieve the full source code.“I was able to see the entire source code of vine, its API keys and third party keys and secrets. Even running the image without any parameter, was letting me host a replica of VINE locally,” he said in his personal blog.

Bug bounty hunting has become a common online activity for copious white hat hackers in India who have actively taken part in various programmes initiated by social media giants. Recently, Anand Prakash, a Bangalore-based Flipkart employee, was in the news for discovering a Facebook bug.While foreign companies are welcoming white-hat hackers and cyber security personnel to rectify service flaws and glitches under lucrative bounty programmes, Indian companies still continue to ignore cyber security issues.