Spam, Viruses and Smartphones- Oh my!

Original Article

The noun definition of spam verbatim is a disruptive, esp. commercial message posted on a computer network or sent as e-mail. Well, it isn't just computers getting these annoying little qwirks anymore. As said in the deffinition, spam is sent through e-mail, and these new smartphones, such as the Blackberry, iPhone, and others all have e-mail. So, if you can send a virus or send spam to a computer through e-mail, why not a phone? This is exactly what hackers everywhere are thinking in their evil-doing minds. Smartphones are becomming more and more popular, thus there are more smartphones to hack then there are computers. In fact, more than 139 million smartphones were sold worldwide, which a 13.9 percent increase from 2007. Experts say that the attacks became more popular when the smartphones began to go from just simply e-mail checking and calling to paying bills, doing taxes, facebook, twitter, and more. So those of you with smartphones: Don't click any suspicious links, because you arn't the 1,000,000,000th visitor, and the only prize you're about to get is a nice virus. And who wants that?