Mobile Move

A report issued Wednesday by the says spam and other will make the move to mobile in the coming months. The study, called the , was presented at the in Atlanta.

"As Internet telephony and mobile computing handle more and more data, they will become more frequent targets of cyber crime," the researchers say.

Bot Targets

The concern is that hackers will begin stealthily taking over phones the way they've taken over network computers, turning them into virtual "bots" to do their bidding (hence the term "botnet"). Because of cell phones' increasing computing power -- not to mention their always-on nature -- the researchers fear they'll soon become an obvious target.