Researchers have demonstrated an attack that can crack 95 percent of Android pattern locks within the five attempts allowed. The side-channel attack, devised by researchers from China and the UK, uses ...

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Richard Drew/AP/REX/Shutterstock (6825150d) Motorola MotoG4, Sony Xperia XA, OnePlus A3000 This, photo shows a Motorola MotoG4, right, a ...

New research from researchers in Sweden and the UK reveals that hackers would be able to steal the unlock pattern of your Android phone by turning the device into an improvised sonar system. Using the ...

You probably know that using a PIN like 1234 or 0000 to secure your phone isn't a good idea. You can skip the PIN altogether and use an unlock pattern on Android... but it turn out those might not be ...

We here at Techlicious do a lot of reporting on how unsafe many peoples’ passwords are – using “1234,” “Password” or your dog’s name just doesn’t cut it security wise. Now, a new analysis of Android ...

While Google had touted the security of Android’s pattern unlock mechanism for securing data and information on an Android smartphone–law enforcement officials were unable to crack their way into the ...

Researchers have found a new way to quickly break into smartphones which employ the pattern unlock method. By using a computer vision algorithm to trace a person’s finger on a phone display, the ...

They might seem trickier, what with their dots and lines and patterns, but as it turns out, the lock codes familiar to Android users are just as easy to crack as the alphanumeric ones used by iPhone ...