Huge Security Flaw - AT&T Galaxy S II

Опубликовано 30 сентября 2011, 20:47

This simple trick can completely unlock your phone without a code.

AT&T Galaxy S II Has a Huge Security Flaw (video) (UPDATED)

By Jon Rettinger on September 30, 2011 (15 minutes ago) in Security, Videos

If You're excited for the Samsung Galaxy S II launching on AT&T, you may want to make sure you aren't going to rely on its lock feature for a whole lot of security.

Boy Genius Report uncovered a highly odd security flaw in the AT&T variant of the Galaxy S II today. If you use the security lock, once you've successfully unlocked, it pretty much breaks it for future uses. All one has to do is power the phone on, wait for it to fade to black without doing the code, and when you power it back on you'll be presented with the normal screen with no lock code. Whomever may pick up your phone at this point can't go to town on your device, getting in to all of your personal information.

Admittedly all of us who are currently encountering this issue are using review units of this phone, and there is a chance that this could be fixed by the time it launches on October 2 with a download. For now, if this isn't addressed, it's a fairly large security hole and one that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Currently the issue is not impacting the Epic 4G Touch on Sprint, so this is specific to the AT&T version.

We have reached out to Samsung for a comment and will update when we hear back from them.

What do you think about this security flaw? Will it impact your decision to buy one?