By Troy Wolverton Analysts say there are all kinds of ways that mobile malware could make mischief. Hackers already have induced phones to exchange text messages with rogue operators that charge a high per-message fee. Security experts worry hackers could soon use the GPS feature built into many phones to track the location of their owners. You've been battling malware -- viruses, worms, spyware and the like -- on your PC for years. Is your phone the next battleground? Security experts think it could be, particularly if it's a smart phone , a handset that has a full operating system and can run applications much as a desktop computer does. The more that phones can perform the same functions as PCs, the greater the chance they will have similar vulnerabilities, experts say. "I'd put it in the looming-threat category," said...
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