North Carolina State University researchers say some Android smartphone makers’ efforts to go above and beyond the platform’s basics open their devices to security breaches. Gartner says more than half of the smartphones sold worldwide in the third quarter run Android. The research, supported by the National Science Foundation and U.S. Army Research Office, will be presented Feb. 7 at the 19th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium in San Diego. Researchers say they notified manufacturers about the holes earlier this year.”]