Hack Brief: Emergency-Number Hack Bypasses Android Lock Screens

If you protect your Android phone with a password rather than an unlock pattern or PIN, you may want to keep it in your sight a little more carefully than usual. A new, dead-simple attack could allow anyone who gets their hands on it to bypass that password lock with no more skill than it takes to cut and paste a long string of characters. The Hack

A security analyst at the University of Texas's information security office in Austin has discovered that the widespread version 5 of Android is vulnerable to an easy lock-screen-bypass attack.…