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 ...

Unlocking phones used to be simple, but that meant they were easy to breach. It's a different landscape now for smartphone security. In the olden days, unlocking phones simply required the user to ...

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 ...

Imagine unlocking your phone in a cafe, unaware that a hacker is secretly videotaping you. Theoretically, they could crack your Android code by analyzing your hand movements with computer vision ...

If you're dubious about Android's pattern lock ability to safeguard the contents of your phone or tablet, know this: it has recently proven to be a tough nut to crack even for the FBI. The feds had to ...

The Pattern Lock method of securing an Android device – one of the most popular methods amongst users, which involves connecting dots with straight lines in a pattern devised by the user – can be ...

If you feel secure with your Android phone's lock pattern, think again. A group of researchers from the Lancaster University, Northwest University in China, and the University of Bath found out that ...

In case you cannot unlock your Android device because you don't remember the password or the unlock pattern, and you cannot connect to the internet, then you will have to follow the process described ...