Blackberry Eyes Up Car Anti-Virus Market

[Reuters] reports that BlackBerry is working with at least two car manufacturers to develop a remote malware scanner for vehicles, On finding something wrong the program would then tell drivers to pull over if they were in critical danger.

The service would be able to install over-the-air patches to idle cars and is in testing phase by Aston Martin and Range Rover. The service could be active as early as next year, making BlackBerry around $10 a month per vehicle.

Since the demise of BlackBerry in the mobile phone sector, they’ve been hard at work refocusing their attention on new …read more

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Dutch Police Seize Another Company that Sells PGP-Encrypted Blackberry Phones

The Dutch police arrested four suspects on Tuesday on suspicion of money laundering and involvement in selling custom encrypted BlackBerry and Android smartphones to criminals.

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Celebrity ‘extortion’: judge orders reality star to unlock her iPhone

The Miami case is just the latest in a line of cases where law enforcement has wanted to get at data stored on someone’s cellphone Continue reading Celebrity ‘extortion’: judge orders reality star to unlock her iPhone

How Dutch Police Decrypted BlackBerry PGP Messages For Criminal Investigation

The Dutch police have managed to decrypt a number of PGP-encrypted messages sent by criminals using their custom security-focused PGP BlackBerry phones and identified several criminals in an ongoing investigation.

PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, an open … Continue reading How Dutch Police Decrypted BlackBerry PGP Messages For Criminal Investigation