Nowadays, smartphones are more than just compact devices made for calling or chatting with others. They’re portable computers, and at the same time, they’re extensions of our lives. A smartphone holds ...

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 Android ...

Android secures your device by asking you for a PIN, pattern, or full password. What happens if you forget the security method you set up? If you're lucky, you can get back in easily—but that may not ...

Smartphones today compete over which can best secure your secrets. They encrypt your data, store the digital keys to unlock themselves on specialized hardware, and even offer fancy biometrics from ...

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 ...

What's safer? Using a numeric PIN code to unlock your Android smartphone or relying on a finger squiggle? Newly-released research suggests that, at least when someone close by could be looking over ...

Often, in our haste—or after setting a new password or pattern—we end up forgetting it. Alternatively, young children at home ...

Forgot your Android phone password, PIN, or lock pattern and can’t get past the lock screen? On modern Android phones, there’s no way to unlock your phone without resetting it. To use it again, you ...

Though unlock patterns used by Android phones may seem more random — and therefore more secure — than passcodes, they can be surprisingly easy to crack. While there are hundreds of thousands of ...

Pattern Lock is a bespoke security feature that comes with the latest models of Android enabled devices. To access a device the user’s finger makes a particular pattern by crisscrossing over a series ...

New research from Northwest University in China, Lancaster University, and the University of Bath indicates that attackers are able to crack Android’s Pattern Lock system in only five attempts with ...