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Source: NetworkWorld - Posted by Bill Keys
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Wireless devices that can send and receive e-mail — BlackBerries, Windows Mobile-based phones or other smart phones — are emerging as serious corporate threats because they have become so advanced and widely used, yet are so thinly secured, that cybercriminals are targeting them as a path to corporate data, say security experts and vendors
“There have been cases of viruses and other nasty things that can be done to mobile phones that have not really been serious yet, but they will be,” says David Ferris, president of Ferris Research.
Mobile messaging threats come in a few flavors, according to David Champine, senior director of product marketing with security vendor Cloudmark. One is text-messaging spam, or quick Short Message Service (SMS) messages that mobile phone users receive directing them to a Web site where the sender is selling something, or in more sinister cases to a site that captures personal or financial information. This particularly annoying form of spam has been around for a few years, but hasn't been prevalent in the United States since text messaging is not as popular here as in Europe and Asia
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