Guessing your Android unlock pattern is way too easy

Android unlock patterns might be fun to use, but they're not that secure. 

A recent study from the U.S. Naval Academy and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County revealed that it's incredibly easy to figure out someone's passcode pattern just by peeking over their shoulder ("shoulder surfing") while they enter it. 

The researchers recruited almost two thousand subjects to watch over-the-shoulder videos of pattern and PIN unlocking, and attempt to reproduce each. 

The researchers found that attackers were able to successfully enter another user's phone after just one observation in a whopping 64.2 percent of cases when using a pattern. PINs weren't foolproof, but were still safer, with a single observation only 10.8 percent likely to lead to a successful attack.  Read more...

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