In Android, the boot process always wipes the user data after a fixed number of failed attempts. However, our Nexus 4 device did not allow us to set a limit for lock screen failures.

More info. Word Crack 2 is available on Android this week, published by Etermax, the same company that gave us Trivia Crack and the original Word Crack.

Cracking the Android facial recognition system isn’t easy–just short of someone taking your phone and forcing you to unlock it, chances are slim it’s going to be cracked.

“Pattern Lock is a very popular protection method for Android Devices,” Dr Zheng Wang, principle investigator and co-author of the paper, and Lecturer at Lancaster University, told Phys.org.

Applidium achieved this crack by using its very own HTTPS server and faked SSL certificates (which sounds like a nasty security issue to us). And along the way, the French software makers found ...

Forensics detective says Android phones are now harder to crack than iPhones One prominent cracking tool was completely ineffective at cracking the HUAWEI P20 Pro. An iPhone X, though, was simple.