You may purchase a second-hand Android phone or use a friend's or relative's phone for the time being but encounter an issue to bypass the Google account verification after resetting. And if you ...

A new variant of Chameleon Android malware has been found in the wild with new features, notable among them the ability to bypass fingerprint locks. The Chameleon Android banking trojan first entered ...

All Google Pixel phones are vulnerable to this surprisingly easy lock screen bypass. The vulnerability was found after Schutz had spent an entire day traveling and his phone battery died. On plugging ...

What just happened? If you're looking for a way to make a lot of money very quickly, you could try to find a security vulnerability and claim the bug bounty reward. One researcher received a $70,000 ...

Fingerprint security is becoming a standard feature on many Android devices, but there's still plenty of people who rely on the trust pattern lock. If you're one of those people you might want to go ...

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

Google recently patched a lockscreen bypass in its Android-based Nexus phones that was discovered and reported by the University of Texas Information Security Office. Boredom led John Gordon to ...

In brief: We tend to believe that if our Android phones are lost or stolen, a fingerprint lock will ensure that the sensitive data they hold stays safe. But Chinese researchers have found a way to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...