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  2. Android 15 will make it harder for phone thieves to steal ...

    www.engadget.com/android-15-will-make-it-harder...

    If an Android 15 handset pinpoints one of these situations, the phone’s screen will quickly lock, making it much harder for the phone snatcher to access your data. A fallback Remote Lock feature ...

  3. Your Android phone could have stalkerware — here's how to ...

    techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/remove-android-spyware

    If you do not recognize a downloaded service in the Accessibility options, you may want to switch it off in the settings and remove the app. Some stalkerware apps are disguised as ordinary looking ...

  4. Android recovery mode - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_recovery_mode

    A Samsung Galaxy A02s booted into recovery mode. The Android recovery mode is a mode of Android used for installing updates and wipe data. [1] [2] It consists of a Linux kernel with ramdisk on a separate partition from the main Android system. Recovery mode can be useful when a phone is stuck in a bootloop or when it has been infected with ...

  5. A simple Android lock screen bypass bug landed a researcher ...

    techcrunch.com/2022/11/14/android-lock-screen...

    Google has paid out $70,000 to a security researcher for privately reporting an “accidental” security bug that allowed anyone to unlock Google Pixel phones without knowing its passcode. The ...

  6. Lock screen - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_screen

    At first, Android did not use a gesture-based lock screen, electing to require the user to press the phone's Menu button. On Android 2.0 , a new gesture-based lock screen was introduced, displaying two icons: one for unlocking the phone, and one for setting the volume mode, activated by dragging the relevant icon to the center of the screen on ...

  7. Kensington Security Slot - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Security_Slot

    Kensington Security lock: unlocked, locked The Kensington Security Slot is the rightmost opening on the side of this Acer Swift 3 laptop computer. The Kensington Security Slot (also called a K-Slot or Kensington lock) is part of an anti-theft system designed in the mid 1980s [1] and patented by Kryptonite in 1999–2000, [2] assigned to Schlage in 2002, and since 2005 owned and marketed by ...

  8. How to recover your Google account, including Gmail and ...

    techcrunch.com/2019/02/01/how-to-recover-quickly...

    How to recover your Google account for Google One members. Go to Google One. Click the Call button at the top of the screen. Tell the person who answers that you’re locked out. They should be ...

  9. The government shouldn't regulate smartphone kill switches

    www.engadget.com/2014-08-18-cellphone-kill...

    Samsung's added a similar feature called Reactivation Lock to the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy S5 that does essentially the same thing. Both options are opt-in, which ensures that your phone doesn't ...