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1st July 2008    Current rating: 

As the Times Online reports, popular smartphones such as the iPhone and Blackberry are very quickly becoming popular targets for hackers and spammers:

Another attraction for spammers is that mobiles are quickly outgrowing the number of computers. Gartner, the industry analyst, forecasts that there will be four billion mobiles compared with 1.3 billion computers by 2010. Mobile spam is rampant in China, where it is much cheaper to send texts and fewer people have computers, Mr Cook said. Others are more sceptical. Sending 100,000 spam e-mails costs only a few dollars, which is significantly cheaper than texting, Carole Theriault, senior security consultant for Sophos, a computer security company, said.

Actually, this last part is soon to be a concern of the past as carriers such as Sprint offer comprehensive, all-inclusive packages that provide both voice and data for low prices. And let’s not forget the attractive nature of unlocked smartphones.

All of the above are just more factors to consider when asking whether or not mobile security is truly a concern. (Note- we say this last line sarcastically.)

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All very relevant observations. Finding a way to secure our devices electronically is only half of the issue. Many of us carry so much our lives on our phones that simply losing our phone could be devastating. Software that could protect from all the evils out there would be worth its weight in gold! Im waiting for the day we can have biosecurity on phones whereby a fingerprint or retina scan would be needed to gain access to our devices!