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Amidst a string of bad news that follows worse, RIM has announced that its government market share is on the rise. Scott Totzke, RIM’s senior vice president of BlackBerry Security spoke with Bloomberg and said the company’s revenue on sales to the United States’ federal government is increasing on the whole. Barak Obama famously carried a BlackBerry as he was voted into presidential office. Totzke didn’t tell Bloomberg if Obama was still carrying a BlackBerry, but did call the...

Smartphones could someday be a major target for criminals seeking to attack major wireless networks, warned Research in Motion's vice president of BlackBerry security.Scott Totzke said that hackers could convert the smartphones into "rogue" devices that target wireless carriers in something known as a distributed denial of service, or a DDOS attack.The technique involves hackers using phone signals to order tens of thousands of computers to repeatedly contact a targeted site,...