A few days ago Samsung announced their new flagship mobile phone; the Galaxy S8 and S8+ with some exciting new features. One of them was convenient unlocking of the phone using facial-recognition, but the same has already been bypassed easily as shown in the video demonstration below. While there are tricks and tools to bypass or hack into android lockscreens, it can't get easier than this.

At times, we all get stuck at our smartphone’s lock screen. It occurs when we forget and input a wrong password, pin or pattern. Thanks to the advancing technology, no one will ever get stuck again at lock screens; even the ones backed up by fingerprint readers. Nonetheless, lock screen security is still the favorite locking mechanism in many smartphones. In this guide, I will show you how to bypass a lock screen of the ever exquisite LG smartphone using different methods. Thanks to its operating system – Android, life is good indeed.

A vulnerability has been discovered in Android operating systems v 5.0 through v 5.1.1 “LMY48M”, the security issue allows an attacker to bypass the lock screen and gain full access to a locked device. Discovered by researchers at the University of Texas the issue got reported, and thankfully the Android security team released an update a few months ago in June which fixes the problem.

Android devices on older builds ( v 5.0 through v 5.1.1) of the operating-system are still vulnerable to the attack as shown in the "step by step" demonstration video as shared below. The attack involves entering a large string of characters into the password field which is used to crash the lock-screen in order to gain unrestricted access to the device bypassing the password security.