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Security experts warn that the rapid growth of mobile devices as most used web-access device in the world means that they will be a major target for cybercriminals. The availability of software development kits for the recently launched Google G1 phone, as well as Apple's iPhone, and the Blackberry, are freely available to hackers. Reported today by Clive Akass of Personal Computer World, Rick Howard, director of intelligence for US security specialist iDefense, a division of VeriSign, says: "We are basically giving the hacker community a tool so that they can figure out how the thing works so that they can hack it."

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