Android devices offer a \u201cpattern unlock\u201d feature as a security measure, but it may not be as safe as users think.<\/p>\n
A study from the US\u00a0Naval Academy found it is easy to \u201cshoulder surf\u201d and remember a user\u2019s unlock pattern.<\/p>\n
Sophos reported<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that researchers conducted a large-scale study which involved participants watching videos of users inputting PINs and unlock patterns.<\/p>\n They then asked them to replicate what they saw.<\/p>\n PINs (six digits) were tough for most users, and only 10% were able to reproduce codes in a video. About 25% were able to remember a PIN with\u00a0multiple viewings.<\/p>\n Unlock patterns that used six nodes, however, were remembered by 64% of participants after one viewing. The success rate increased to 80% with multiple viewings.<\/p>\n Previous research has found that despite Android\u2019s nine-node pattern grid offering\u00a0389,112 possible patterns, most people use one of four patterns.<\/p>\n Android devices offer a \u201cpattern unlock\u201d feature as a security measure, but it may not be as safe as users think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":91151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[947,1461],"class_list":["post-120998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-android","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121000,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120998\/revisions\/121000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Your Android backups will be deleted if your device is inactive<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"