With Asian mobile carriers already fighting a rising tide of wireless spam, Cloudmark is looking to get ahead of the deluge before it arrives on other shores, courtesy of the longtime antispam player's new MobileAuthority service.

Today's debut of Cloudmark MobileAuthority comes as the latest sign that mobile spam is increasingly in the spotlight as a growing threat. Earlier this month, U.S. legislators began working on laws to contain a problem that's only forecast to grow over time.

Part of the problem is that like with e-mail, SMS (define) text messages poses few barriers to entry for would-be spammers.

"SMS is now virtually free, and spammers like free," Cloudmark CEO Hugh McCartney toldInternetNews.com.

He added that 40 percent of SMS messages in China are now spam, and that that the wave of mobile spam is just beginning.

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