Android phones are tempting targets for hackers

Google recently dropped 10 smartphone apps from its online Android Market store, after Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, found the programs were infected with Plankton, a program that secretly collects information about a user’s Web-browsing habits. It was the latest of several incidents in which Google was forced to purge infected apps from the Android Market. In March, the company deleted about 50 apps that contained DroidDream, a program that could seize control of an infected phone and steal information stored on it. And in May,

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