Mobile security is a hot topic lately – Google recently discovered over 60 applications that had been published to the market with malicious software affecting devices operating on Android 2.2.2 and lower. Google immediately removed the applications, as they said in their mobile development blog, and plans to incorporate more security measures into the application market.

The security precautions include the isolation of activities (which are described as individual actions made by each application, such as opening a calendar and adding a new event as Andrew May said in the Android Honeycomb article from last week), which allows every application to function on the devices in their own “sandbox.” In addition to this, the security and permissions section of their dev website details the security architecture and steps devs can take to provision their applications.

Google has not detailed their new measures at this point in time, but users and developers can review their FAQs on security here. Google used – and plans to continue to use – the remote application wipe feature to fix any devices that were harmed in this malware attack, as described in their market blog here.

What is your plan to keep your applications safe from infected devices? Any plans to add extra layers of security? Share your thoughts here.