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Android 17 makes it harder for a brute-force attack to successfully break into your phone

They don't call it a lock screen for nothing. Google, back in May, said that it would be making it harder for bad actors to bypass the lock screen in order to break into an Android-powered smartphone.
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Android phones are vulnerable to fingerprint brute-force attacks

Researchers at Tencent Labs and Zhejiang University have presented a new attack called 'BrutePrint,' which brute-forces fingerprints on modern smartphones to bypass user authentication and take ...