Screen locks are a very important thing for most of the Android smartphones. If you ever forgot Samsung password for your phone, you must be well aware of the troubles. Not only the screen locks secure your important information stored in the phone but also prevents the apps on running on its own. Thus, if you forgot Samsung password, your phone may be nothing but a rectangular box to you. In spite of several advantages, the biggest disadvantage of a screen lock is to unlock it at that time when you forgot Samsung password.

We have to admit that Toshiba laptops still have a great number of users now. For those who enjoy the powerful functions and convenient services it provided, they always come across the same problem, “How can I unlock my Toshiba laptop on Windows 10 /Windows 8 when I forgot the login password”? It is indeed an annoying experience of forgetting the laptop passwords.

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.