Increasing Android malware should scare hospital CIOs

A word of warning for all hospital CIOs: Be sure to keep a close eye on clinicians using Android devices and apps. Android malware attacks have doubled, and the number of Android apps with malware has quadrupled in the past six months, according to San Francisco-based mobile security firm Lookout Securities' new "2011 Mobile Threat Report." The result: Nearly 30 percent of Android users will be hit with malware this year.

Primary app-based threats in the first half of 2011--for all platforms, not just Android--include: Malware, or software that can be used to steal personal information from a mobile device, or to replicate a virus by sending unsolicited emails to a user's contact list....