With smartphones outselling PCs for the first time -- 421 million of the hand-held computers are expected to be sold worldwide this year, according to market analysts at IDC -- the long-predicted crime wave on hand-held devices appears to have arrived. According to the mobile-security firm Lookout, malware and spyware appeared on 9 out of 100 phones it scanned in May, more than twice the 4-in-100 rate in December 2009.
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