23 May 2008
New recommendations have been handed out to mobile phone firms in an attempt to improve security in the sector.
The Open Mobile Terminal Platform has released two separate documents looking at this area, as more services become available on the portable telephones, reports ZDNet.co.uk.
Advice for manufactures looking to beat hackers who may try and take personal information is included in the publications, along with hardware programming measures.
Head of the National Mobile Phone Crime Unit Detective Superintendent Mick McNally said that prevention must align itself with the rise in technology, as this is fast-paced.
"Technology is increasing at an incredible rate. We need to ensure that the incentives for people to steal mobile phones are taken away," he commented.
Recent research carried out by the universities of California, Los Angeles and Aarhus in Denmark found that women who are pregnant using mobile telephones may find that their children face behavioral problems.