BlackBerry releases September security update for its Android phones

Himanshu, 07 September 2017

After Nokia, Google, and most recently Sony, it's BlackBerry's turn to push out the latest security update to its Android smartphones. The update bumps the security patch level to September 5.

Usually, BlackBerry's vulnerability management team BBSIRT announces the roll out of monthly security updates through their Twitter account, but this time the news comes courtesy of a new post on the company's online Knowledge Base.

As is usually the case, units purchased through Shop BlackBerry will be getting the September update first, followed by the carrier variants, that usually receive such updates after a significant delay.

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Reader comments

Anonymous
08 Sep 2017
c{L

There were no carrier versions of DTEK. They all came directly from BlackBerry.

Anonymous
08 Sep 2017
PA7

As long as current M working well just relax, latelly every android update only bring minor improvement.

Anon
07 Sep 2017
N%j

Monthly security patches are more important than OS updates. I am not happy that they are not updating the OS but I need security updates more than the OS updates. If your variant does;t have the latest security patch, that's not because of Bla...