Smartphone security attacks on the rise.

Worms, spam, viruses and hackers -- they're not just for your desktop or laptop anymore. According to internet security experts they could be well on their way into your pocket or purse.
The popularity of smartphones -- like the Blackberry, iPhone, Palm and the emerging Droid -- is on the rise and shows no signs of letting up.
And that's making the phones a sweeter target for online ne'er do-wells looking to, at the very least, cause mischief and, at worst, rip off unsuspecting phone owners.
"It's guaranteed that almost everything we see on a computer will show up on a smartphone -- and some new things," said Jake Widman, a San Francisco-based technology writer and analyst
Security companies already have seen several threats hitting smartphones. In most cases, they say, they're targeted at individuals rather than the millions of desktop or laptop users that a typical e-mail attack can impact.
"What we haven't seen is the massive anonymous attacking across all of the smartphone bases," Storms said. "[Traditional] worms and viruses continue to breed and move on from computer to computer -- the attacks we see today on the smartphone market are targeted attacks."
Security analysts say they've already seen all of the major online threats -- Trojan horses, viruses, worms -- spreading on smartphones, often through e-mail attachments sent to the phones.
One attack even used a Bluetooth headset to try to attack other Bluetooth users within 20 feet of the infected unit.
Security problems most pronounced in the early days of the smartphone -- when a majority of them ran on a single operating system and it was easier for malware to spread from one phone to the next.
One of the problems now, analysts say, is that people who take security precautions on their home computers either forget to do so with their phones or don't think they need to in the first place.

Link:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/25/smartphone.security/index.html