Yes they do, from TFA:
The report notes that Carl Hancock on Twitter was able to activate the Home button using gloves made to work specifically with touch screens.
Then you use this NOVEL ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE CONCEPT called a LOCK SCREEN PASSWORD to unlock it.
Emphasis added to help the slow people among us catch up.
You call me slow and yet you can't figure out that the same procedure works for both old iPhones and the new iPhone 7, if you use a glove for touchscreens you can still use the LOCK SCREEN PASSWORD and use your phone regardless which one you own.
If you are going to call people slow, at least make sure you're not slower.
Never, but the point is you can't even use the special gloves to do it.
Tests have shown that using gloves designed for touch screens will get an iPhone 6s Plus to unlock but not an iPhone 7 Plus.
But TouchID didn't work either with the physical button if you had gloves on, that's why i got myself a pair of fingerless gloves to use my 6s Plus when is cold.
All i see is a supposed "hacker" that doesn't even know that by clicking "Advanced" link button on the Chrome security warning page you can proceed, don't know how they set up the MITM attack on the users PC, and Avira is off as you can clearly see the umbrella is closed.
Well, iPhone is certainly a lot more brain dead easy.
You can find quality Android devices, but it is harder and you have to do considerably more research.
With an iPhone, you know what you are getting. IMO that is the main reason people stick with iPhones.
There is too much choice in the world these days. If you don't have any choice, then the decision is easy.
Well, i got disappointed at SAMSUNG, LG, Motorola devices multiple times, i really didn't want to any more research with Android, which would have meant spending even more money, and went actually for a good quality phone. I'm not saying that Android phones are all bad, there's one Android phone that i actually quite liked, but my Galaxy S2 died on a toilet accident. I was actually interested on getting a Huawei phone before the iPhone, but people that owned it told me it wasn't good.
I recently switched from Android to iPhone, i always had Android devices, but the poor quality devices, the non-working custom UIs and having my LG G3 stuck on Android 5 while on some parts of the world LG released Android 6 made me switch, and i'm not looking back
No physical access required. Arbitrary code execution in a non-elevated context required, and then it can use that to elevate... if you're a member of the Administrators group, and still have the brain-dead UAC default "don't notify when I make changes to Windows settings" setting selected.
An attacker would already need to be on the machine to use this technique
That pretty much is physical access. Not to mention that we're talking about a improperly configured environment. Nevertheless, it is a vulnerability that must be addressed and Microsoft's response is unacceptable.
P.S.: I'm pretty sure that UAC doesn't allow you to make changes without being notified by default.
I switched to Windows 10 as early as I could. Those who have a pathological hate for MS will never switch, those who believe the haters and refuse to switch to Windows 10 get what they deserve, and those on the fence about switching to Windows 10 better move quick or risk paying for what they could have had for free.
They took the first step to end one of the two main problem Android has, poor quality phones with bloated bullshit. I just switched to iPhone two weeks ago sick and tired of waiting for LG to update my phone as they did on other parts of the world.
Now they need to enforce strong patterns into app devs and then you'll have a decent competitor.
All this won't be needed if manufacturers would spend half the time they spend building unnecessary bloated and unstable UIs porting and releasing updates
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Yes they do, from TFA: The report notes that Carl Hancock on Twitter was able to activate the Home button using gloves made to work specifically with touch screens.
I see you still haven't read the whole article, where it clearly states that thouchscreen gloves work perfectly
Still haven't figured that screen doesn't work with regular gloves huh? Don't worry, i'll wait, just try to get there faster
Then you use this NOVEL ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE CONCEPT called a LOCK SCREEN PASSWORD to unlock it.
Emphasis added to help the slow people among us catch up.
You call me slow and yet you can't figure out that the same procedure works for both old iPhones and the new iPhone 7, if you use a glove for touchscreens you can still use the LOCK SCREEN PASSWORD and use your phone regardless which one you own. If you are going to call people slow, at least make sure you're not slower.
Never, but the point is you can't even use the special gloves to do it.
But TouchID didn't work either with the physical button if you had gloves on, that's why i got myself a pair of fingerless gloves to use my 6s Plus when is cold.
On every smartphone, when were you able to use (regular) gloves to interact with a touch screen smartphone?
So, more than half Costa Rica's energy comes from fossil fuels yet TFA says it's been running without fossil fuels... FUD.
All-in-No thanks
All i see is a supposed "hacker" that doesn't even know that by clicking "Advanced" link button on the Chrome security warning page you can proceed, don't know how they set up the MITM attack on the users PC, and Avira is off as you can clearly see the umbrella is closed.
Here's hoping the rest of the market doesn't make like apple-obsessed sheep for once and make the 3.5mm headphone jack obsolete.
Motorola dropped the headphone jack first, so it looks it's on the way out... or not, who knows?
Well, iPhone is certainly a lot more brain dead easy.
You can find quality Android devices, but it is harder and you have to do considerably more research.
With an iPhone, you know what you are getting. IMO that is the main reason people stick with iPhones.
There is too much choice in the world these days. If you don't have any choice, then the decision is easy.
Well, i got disappointed at SAMSUNG, LG, Motorola devices multiple times, i really didn't want to any more research with Android, which would have meant spending even more money, and went actually for a good quality phone. I'm not saying that Android phones are all bad, there's one Android phone that i actually quite liked, but my Galaxy S2 died on a toilet accident. I was actually interested on getting a Huawei phone before the iPhone, but people that owned it told me it wasn't good.
I recently switched from Android to iPhone, i always had Android devices, but the poor quality devices, the non-working custom UIs and having my LG G3 stuck on Android 5 while on some parts of the world LG released Android 6 made me switch, and i'm not looking back
Earlier today we learned that the cloud storage had been hacked, and as many as 68 million accounts are affected.
The Dropbox hack was from 2012, we all knew they were hacked.
Did they break in by a security hole or did they used compromised credentials to break in? Any info on that matter?
That's like saying that smoking tobacco doesn't cause cancer because there were cancer cases before humans smoked tobacco. Flawed argument is flawed.
"What's my password? Shoot!!" Uhm, don't say that in the US, the police might oblige...
Haha, you're right, i better don't forget my password then...
No physical access required. Arbitrary code execution in a non-elevated context required, and then it can use that to elevate... if you're a member of the Administrators group, and still have the brain-dead UAC default "don't notify when I make changes to Windows settings" setting selected.
An attacker would already need to be on the machine to use this technique
That pretty much is physical access. Not to mention that we're talking about a improperly configured environment. Nevertheless, it is a vulnerability that must be addressed and Microsoft's response is unacceptable. P.S.: I'm pretty sure that UAC doesn't allow you to make changes without being notified by default.
What's my password? Shoot!!, i forgot my password.
Admin privileges?, Physical access?, big meh.
I switched to Windows 10 as early as I could. Those who have a pathological hate for MS will never switch, those who believe the haters and refuse to switch to Windows 10 get what they deserve, and those on the fence about switching to Windows 10 better move quick or risk paying for what they could have had for free.
Well, this is /., what did you expected?
But they'll hand your data as soon as the goverment asks for it.
Who on their right mind will use their products now?
Never even noticed, are there any essentials sites that use flash?
I got to find a new free AV solution, fuck.
They took the first step to end one of the two main problem Android has, poor quality phones with bloated bullshit. I just switched to iPhone two weeks ago sick and tired of waiting for LG to update my phone as they did on other parts of the world. Now they need to enforce strong patterns into app devs and then you'll have a decent competitor. All this won't be needed if manufacturers would spend half the time they spend building unnecessary bloated and unstable UIs porting and releasing updates