Hackers Try to Crack Smartphones

Of course they're trying. That's what criminals do. Oddly, I haven't heard of any success stories, and my most jaded side says "McAfee smells a business opportunity."

Having said that, of course eventually they will succeed. My hope is that retailers and phone providers work together to find ways to avoid sending credit card info over the lines.

After all, we used to say that "no one hacks a Mac because it's not popular enough to be worthwhile." That's not true anymore, and there still are very few, if any, hacks. So I believe it is possible to conduct mobile business in a secure way.

Paula Rosenblum, Managing Partner, RSR Research

I think it means that m-commerce will not grow as rapidly as it would otherwise. With all the spam e-mails, malware, spyware, phishing e-mails, etc, it is clear (to me) that e-commerce would be doing better than it already is if it weren't so scary to many people. The same will be true for m-commerce.

Al McClain, CEO, Founder, RetailWire.com

Criminal cyber activity is expanding to the extent that any size company that attempts to sell through the internet is now unable to accurately predict security and disaster recovery costs over a given time. There are no ramifications for those that wish to make a living by hacking corporate business systems as long as they stick to businesses outside their own country's borders. The needed materials to locate origins and authors of any type invasive script exist and are infallible in design and use. As long as governments throughout the world consider due process as a territorial invasion or an invasion of free speech this problem will continue to grow as we are seeing with WikiLeaks. This could even escalate much further due to the cost of keyboards vs. guns.

'gjarnoldjr'