BlackBerry WinMo, Android an' Droid App: Lookout - Looks-Out for Security, Lost Phones and Backup

Cloud-based smartphone security provider, Lookout, announced it has surpassed two million registered users for their security product.

In two months this
summer, over a million users chose Lookout to protect their device,
doubling the user base.  Running in the background, Lookout scans for viruses, malware and security threats.

Lookout backs up contacts and photos, allowing the contacts to be uploaded to a new phone. Lookout also helps users find their phone by locating it on a map and causing the phone to emit an alarm.  Unfortunately, if the phone is turned off, the find/alarm functions do not work.  The "nuke" feature wipes data from the phone.

To date, Lookout has achieved these three milestones:

1. Found lost or stolen phones for users more than 700,000 times, with a
   phone found every 15 seconds over the past two months.
2. Backed up over 130 million photos.
3. Backed up over 625 million contacts, which if printed on business
   cards would wrap around the circumference of the earth 1.4 times.

The service and software and free. Lookout is available from Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile.In the past two months, the threats to smartphone users have increased
with new malware and spyware showing up across the major mobile
platforms.  A recent SMS Trojan made headlines as the first Android
malware of its kind resulting in unwanted premium rate charges for its
victims.

TapSnake is another example of a recently discovered mobile
threat where a piece of spyware was disguised as a legitimate game which
enables an attacker to track a victim's location without their
knowledge. Lookout was able to immediately protect mobile devices
against both of these threats, underscoring the importance of
cloud-based security.  Lookout leverages its worldwide cloud-based threat detection network to
provide superior protection for mobile devices.