Google Android Flaw Gives Hackers an In

The first smartphone to run on Google's(GOOG Quote) Android operating system -- T-Mobile's G-1 -- has run into newly identified security problems within a few days of going on sale nationwide.

According to a weekend report in The New York Times, security experts have found what they term a "serious flaw" in the Android OS. According to one of the researchers involved, Charles Miller, a former National Security Agency computer specialist, there is a flaw in the Web-browsing software that could be exploited. In this case, a hacker could divert the G-1 browser user to a rogue Web site. These attacks are similar to what unprotected computers' users face when they are connected to the Internet.

Google says its Android operating system and the G-1 phone are different from many other computers as well as advanced smartphones, including Apple's (AAPL Quote) iPhone in the way they handle software applications. ...