Certain Samsung phones are vulnerable to a fast-fingered attack that can completely bypass the lock screen. Mobile security vendors Bkav and Lookout offer third-party protection, pending a fix by ...

New software lets you ignore the Win 8 Start screen so that all you ever see is the traditional desktop. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's ...

Lock screen bugs in iOS are nothing new, and each version of iOS has introduced different ways for curious minds to get past the iOS lock screen by taking advantage of a few tricks. However, a newly ...

The technique to bypass the lock screen to gain access to the Galaxy S3 home screen was shared on the Full Disclosure Mailing list. In the post, the individual said the bypass gains access to the ...

More than 100 million Android devices could have their lock screens bypassed via a bug in the latest version of Skype. That warning was sounded Monday by "Pulser," the developer administrator for ...

It took more than a month for Apple to fix a flaw with iPhone and iPad lock screens that allowed hackers to easily break into a user's iOS 6.1-powered device. In just a few button presses and key taps ...

Editor's note: We have updated this piece, first published on September 19, following reports that this bug also allowed access to contact data. See below for updates. Just one day after Apple's ...

McAfee Labs reports that Microsoft fixed a problem with Cortana that allowed anyone to read sensitive information on the Windows 10 lock screen and bypass the screen altogether. At the core of the ...

It doesn’t sound like much of an iOS 7 bug — swipe this way, launch such-and-such app, double-tap that button, slip iOS’s surly security bonds — but if you tend to believe the “lock” in Lock Screen ...

Apple has reportedly fixed a vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to bypass the passcode on iPhone 6s and 6s Plus running iOS 9.3.1 in order to access the address book and photos. The bypass ...

Apple has today released iOS 7.0.2 for iOS devices with a fix for the lock screen bypass vulnerability discovered this week. The issue allowed users to jump past lock screen passcodes to gain access ...

This week iOS 7 is out for the public, readied for not only the newest wave of iPhone devices in the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, but for legacy iPhones, iPod touch, and both the iPad and the iPad mini.