Android Lollipop Can Be Hacked With Very Long Password

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 17, 2015 @02:23AM from the ipso-facto-presto dept.

Complex passwords are the way to beat some attacks, but for phones running the latest version of Android, that's not necessarily so: puddingebola writes with an excerpt from an article at CNN: Locked phones require a passcode. But there's a way to get around that. Just type in an insanely long password. That overloads the computer, which redirects you to the phone's home screen. It's a time-consuming hack, but it's actually easy to pull off. In a report published Tuesday, computer security researcher John Gordon documented the vulnerability and posted a video of the hack. It only affects smartphones using the latest version of the Android operating system, Lollipop.

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Hardware Access by Barny · 2015-09-17 02:29 · Score: 2, Insightful

Yeah, if you have hardware access to a device you own it. Nothing new to see.

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Re:And it has been fixed by ITRambo · 2015-09-17 03:33 · Score: 5, Insightful

I'm pretty sure that most users will not get the patch for a very long time, if ever, due to carriers not caring one bit about updating in a timely manner.