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Blackberry ER an application by PocketMac was primarily designed to locate a stolen BlackBerry handset. The application is designed to send a text message to the registered phone number in case the SIM is changed. It goes a step further by including the GPS location in the text.

The owner may use this information and with the help of local authorities, recover his stolen Blackberry.

Three out of four companies will soon face more security risks because they continue to run the soon-to-be-retired Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), a report published today claimed.

Toronto-based technology systems and services provider Softchoice Corp. reports that 77% of the organizations it surveyed are running Windows XP SP2 on 10% or more of their PCs. Nearly 46% of the 280,000 business computers Softchoice analyzed rely on the aged operating system.

"This is a red alert," said Dean Williams, services development manager at Softchoice. "This isn't something you can safely ignore, like you might have before."

In December 2009, researchers at the security lab of Fraunhofer SIT announced a new way of circumventing the drive encryption technology provided by Microsoft Bitlocker (found in versions of Vista, Windows 7 and Server 2008). In addition to previous announcements from other researchers on the same topic, Fraunhofer were able to bypass this security even when used in conjunction with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM).