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According to a Cloudmark-commissioned survey from Harris Interactive, nearly two thirds of mobile device owners are concerned about security. The survey showed security concerns are preventing many users from adopting new mobile services for financial transactions and shopping. Spam is reaching more mobile users and becoming a greater nuisance.

Survey results showed that users' perception of security is proving to be a significant barrier to their adoption, especially for mobile financial transactions:

• 65 percent of all mobile device owners expressed concerns about the security of their device.
• Nearly half (46 percent) of these concerned device owners said that their worries about security prevented them from conducting activities on their mobile device.
• Of the activities mobile device owners said they were prevented from doing because of their concerns, financial transactions such as paying bills (73 percent), conducting banking activities (71 percent) and shopping (56 percent) were named most often.
• 79 percent of mobile device owners said that they have never sent or received confidential information of any kind through their device, which may further illustrate their lack of confidence in security.