The abundance of password leaks over the past decade has revealed some of the most commonly used ... cracked in a matter of seconds. Now, Android lock patterns—the password alternative Google ...

This means that an attacker will likely remember your lock pattern after only seeing you input it once. Any cashier, person behind you in a line, or common ... the worst (and most popular) passwords.

Well, turns out Android ... pattern locks [as are used in] pin codes and alphanumeric passwords." She also deduced based on the mock patterns the participants created for her that most people ...

According to a recent analysis, one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN to protect their smartphones and other personal ...

The other day I picked up a co-workers phone lying on the desk and noticed that you could clearly see the greasy smudges on the screen of the phone highlighting the lock pattern of the device.

I would say that's also part of the reason 8 (and 6 if you look carefully) nodes pattern are less common. For most symmetric patterns you need an odd number of nodes. Take a 6 or 7 letter word and ...