Security flaw discovered on Samsung Galaxy devices, (kind of) allows lock screen bypassing

11. Mxyzptlk posted on 04 Mar 2013, 08:03 5 23

Security needs vast improvement.

20. PapaSmurf posted on 04 Mar 2013, 09:36 15 2

I know in iOS 6. Tell Apple to fix that ASAP.

21. techspace posted on 04 Mar 2013, 10:22 1 8

to be honest, i think apple ios will remain the most secure os for a long time and its easy to push in more, quicker security updates on ios
forget about android not being secure, even we don't know how many things we do on our devices to make them even more insecure, especially with the custom builds(rooting)
i am not talking about this minor issue(samsung's lock screen bypassing) , i am talking about android in general........we don't know about the future, but today android is more vulnerable

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23. PapaSmurf posted on 04 Mar 2013, 11:27 6 0

I'd have to give BB credit. Blackberry is probably in my book the most secure.

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27. Mxyzptlk posted on 04 Mar 2013, 15:13 0 5

Certainly not financially secure.

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36. techspace posted on 05 Mar 2013, 07:47 0 0

bb is vulnerable today, bb10 can be affected sooner or later
ios and android are more popular and have a lot of apps, we can talk about bb if it remains as secure even after getting more apps and attention
and the playbook can run malicious android apps as well

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25. hiBreed posted on 04 Mar 2013, 12:53 8 1

Are u high on crack? Since when did ios become the most secure os. Blackberry would remain the most secure os, even if they had a 1 month holiday

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34. techspace posted on 05 Mar 2013, 07:34 0 0

bb pin to pin messages are insecure......every hacker is saying that bb is vulnerable, don't talk about the age old useless bb phones, look at the latest ones.....they are vulnerable today, anything could happen if bb becomes more popular and gets more attention(especially hacker's attention) like ios and android....we don't even know what will happen if they get hundreds of thousands of apps like ios and android
talk about bb10,not about the useless older versions..... how can you say that its secure, you can say that after giving it sometime
talking about older versions, bb playbook ran android apps and games.....even the ones that were malicious

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35. techspace posted on 05 Mar 2013, 07:43 0 0

wait for a couple of years, you will understand who is right and who is crack.....don't talk about what happened in the past when they had no attention, no proper OS like bb10
and bb services don't even work sometimes....
there were times when people like you said that mac os x was really very secure, what happened today?
apple offers great security to ios, jailbreaking the phones is becoming harder and harder day by day, they are hiring many hackers, their hard work on ios is evident..there are almost a million apps and none of them have malware, even the ones that crept in were thrown away

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26. ZeroCide posted on 04 Mar 2013, 13:58 4 0

Your comments need vast improvemant too.

22. techspace posted on 04 Mar 2013, 10:31 0 0

is it working when you are on wifi and when you are on power saving mode?
just try it and tell me.........and are you using the international version?

24. PapaSmurf posted on 04 Mar 2013, 11:30 1 0

T-mobile Galaxy S3. I tried again. It works, but it only shows the homescreen for 1/16 of a second which really isn't an issue to me. All I have is the weather widget, camera, gmail, etc. and that's it.

This little flaw doesn't affect me at all and don't care about it. Now getting to my text messages and such, that's a different story lol.

37. techspace posted on 05 Mar 2013, 07:50 0 0

you are right, its not a serious problem.....and thank you for the info

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9. Mxyzptlk posted on 04 Mar 2013, 08:01 8 21

Apple has nothing to do with the article.

18. tedkord posted on 04 Mar 2013, 08:28 8 1

Sure they do. They're your motivation for posting in every Android article. They're your motivation for life, spreading the gospel of Apple.

33. nicholassss posted on 05 Mar 2013, 04:25 0 0

plus wasnt there news about a similar issue with iOS 6?

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12. Mxyzptlk posted on 04 Mar 2013, 08:04 1 21

That doesn't solve anything.

17. procopiojose posted on 04 Mar 2013, 08:21 9 0

nothing can be accessed from your phone anyway.. people can live with it.. once the lock screen get activated, any window behind it is closed..

14. nlbates66 posted on 04 Mar 2013, 08:09 8 0

wasn't it more like iOS 2.1 or iOS 4.1 that had the original glitch on iOS?

30. jroc74 posted on 04 Mar 2013, 18:52 1 0

Then when I tried to call my home phone, it said Failed!! Only emergency numbers can be called.

32. Jack58221 posted on 04 Mar 2013, 23:02 0 0

just tried it on a friend s3 and could open assistant too, but his turned off after the greeting and would not let him do anything. only difference I know of its that I use go launcher, but I don't see how a launcher could effect that.