Android devices offer a “pattern unlock” 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 “shoulder surf” and remember a user’s unlock pattern.<\/p>\n
Sophos reported<\/a><\/strong> that 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’s nine-node pattern grid offering\u00a0389,112 possible patterns, most people use one of four patterns.<\/p>\n A new study has found it is easy to “shoulder surf” and remember an unlock pattern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":225973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[397,167,46359],"class_list":["post-230997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-android","tag-google","tag-unlock-pattern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231011,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230997\/revisions\/231011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230997"}],"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><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"