Securing your Android device with a lock screen is essential for privacy, but what happens when you forget the password or pattern? In this guide, we will explore four proven methods to unlock ...

A vulnerability exists in Samsung devices running Android version 4.1.2 that could give unauthenticated users the ability to circumvent the screen lock and view the home screen, run apps, and ...

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Tested on an Samsung Galaxy Note II with Android 4.1.2, an attacker can bypass the device's lock screen, albeit momentarily, to access functions and view data on the device.

Cybersecurity researcher David Schütz unintentionally found a method to bypass the lock screen on Android phones, Bleeping Computer reports. He tested the bypass on his up-to-date Google Pixel 6 ...

Bad news, Droid owners. Android OS version 2.0.1, which all up-to-date Droids are running, has a bug that makes it fairly easy to bypass the phone's screen-lock security mechanism. The security ...

Another day, another smartphone lock screen bypass vulnerability. This time a flaw in a popular messaging application for the Android mobile platform is to blame.

Right on schedule, Google released its November security update for Pixel phones — and to look at the short list of user-facing changes, it would appear that this is little more than a routine release ...

A screen pattern lock is an alternative to PIN codes or text passwords on Android devices and estimates suggest it's used on around 40 percent of smartphones and tablets running the OS. Because ...