3 ways of hacking a phone's password

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1.) IF YOU PROTECT your Android phone with a password rather than an unlock pattern or PIN, you may want to keep it in your sight a little more carefully than usual. A new, dead-simple attack could allow anyone who gets their hands on it to bypass that password lock with no more skill than it takes to cut and paste a long string of characters.

The Hack
A security analyst at the University of Texas’s information security office in Austin has discovered that the widespread version 5 of Android is vulnerable to an easy lock-screen-bypass attack. The hack consists of basic steps like entering a long, arbitrary collection of characters into the phone’s Emergency Call dial pad and repeatedly pressing the camera shutter button. UT’s John Gordon, who outlines the full hack in this security notice and demonstrates it in the video below, says the trick offers full access to the apps and data on affected phones. And by using that access to enable developer mode, he says that an attacker could also connect to the phone via USB and install malicious software.

“My concern when I found this…was thinking about a malicious state actor or someone else with temporary access to your phone,” he says. “If, say, you give your phone to a TSA agent during extended screening, they could take something from it or plant something on it without you knowing.

Gordon says he stumbled on the lock screen vulnerability while messing with his phone during a long East Texas road trip. “I’m sitting in the passenger seat, bored, with no signal on my phone, so I start poking around and seeing what unexpected behavior I can cause,” he says. “A few idle hours of tapping every conceivable combination of elements on the screen can do wonders for finding bugs.”

Who’s Affected?
Gordon tested the attack only on Nexus devices, but he believes it likely works on other Android devices that use version 5 of the operating system. He reported the issue to Google in late June, and Google issued a patch for the problem last month. But given Android’s problem of depending on carriers to push out patches to devices, Gordon believes that most of the affected phones remain vulnerable for now. Google hasn’t yet responded to WIRED’s request for comment.

The issue is limited to phones that use a password rather than a PIN or pattern. That’s a small fraction of the millions of potentially vulnerable devices. But, perversely, it may affect the most security-sensitive Android owners most, since a long password generally offers tighter security than Android’s other log-in options.

How Severe is This?
In some respects, this attack may be more of a curiosity than a critical threat. (Google itself labelled the problem as “moderate severity.”) After all, it does require physical access to the phone—rather than allowing a hacker to break into it remotely, like the text-message-based Stagefright exploit.

Even so, those with vulnerable devices should install any available security updates, consider switching from a passcode to a PIN or pattern unlock, and watch where you leave your phone. Now would be an especially bad time to forget it at the bar.
2.)
Do you ever wonder how all these celebrities continue to have their private photos spread all over the internet? While celebrities' phones and computers are forever vulnerable to attacks, the common folk must also be wary. No matter how careful you think you were went you sent those "candid" photos to your ex, with a little effort and access to public information, your pictures can be snagged, too. Here's how.

Cloud Storage

Apple's iCloud service provides a hassle free way to store and transfer photos and other media across multiple devices.

While the commercial exemplifies the G-rated community of iPhone users, there are a bunch of non-soccer moms that use their iPhones in a more..."free spirited" mindset. With Photo Stream enabled (requires OS X Lion or later, iOS 5 or later), pictures taken on your iPhone go to directly to your computer and/or tablet, all while being stored in the cloud.

If you think the cloud is safe, just ask Gizmodo reporter Mat Honan. His iCloud account was hacked by someone who contacted Apple Support and requested a password reset by working around the security questions and using available information of Honan's social media accounts. The hacker remotely wiped all of Honan's devices and hijacked the Gizmodo Twitter account. Luckily for him, his photos were not of any concern to the hacker, but other people might not be so lucky.

Email

Email is one of the most used applications on a person's mobile device. While remotely hacking into someone's phone and gaining access to their system files and photos is extremely difficult, hacking into an email account is much easier. While MMS is usually the method of choice for those sending images over their phone, many people still use their email accounts for sharing files.

That's how some "intriguing" photos of Scarlett Johansson ended up all over the internet last year. The hacker simply found her email address by trying random iterations of her name in combination with common email clients like Gmail or Yahoo, and then used the forgotten password helper. After answering the security questions by using public information and scouring the internet, he gained access to her email account, which contained some of her photos.

Once a hacker has an email address, the information he or she now has access to has multiplied. Many people prefer paperless billing for their obligations, cell phone bills included. On those cell phone bills is the number of the account holder as well as a ton of other information like outgoing and incoming calls. And if you are using Gmail, you can send text messages right inside the email client, making it even easier to get in touch with other contacts.

So, while email hacking might not get you to the images directly, it can lead you to various sources of information that will get you closer to your goal, like a cell phone number. With your target's cell phone number in hand, those photos are within reach.

Cellular Provider

Sometimes the cellular provider is the weakest point of defense for a cell phone user. Both AT&T and Verizon allow user ID's to be the customers wireless number. If you have the number of the phone, you can use the "forgot my password" feature to request for a temp password, or even change the password altogether by either entering a 4 digit pin code, crackable by brute force, or by answering a few security questions.

Studies have shown that most people are terrible at choosing PINs, so you may not even have to use brute force—just try the list of most common ones that people use. Once inside the account, you have access to all the usage and data the phone has sent or received in the latest billing period.

Spoofing

With access to the numbers a cell phone has contacted and access to the text messages that have been sent from it, it's not too hard to spoof someone's number. Instead of trying to steal the photos off the phone, you can trick them into sending them directly to you. There are a bunch of cell
3.) Sometimes you need to scoop out the reality or truth which might be mystically concealed from you. You live in worrisome and intractable situation and try to put in every effort which can let you know that very actuality and reality which is related to your own life. The only choice you’re left with is to vigil on your spouse and children by hacking into their cell phone that too without letting them know about it.

The major concern of all the parents are their teenaged daughter and son because they often state the half truth and hence drag themselves to onerous and difficult circumstances. Another big concern is your cheating spouse who completely leaves you startled and perplexed. One feels helpless when get stuck in these scenarios and cannot think of anything to rollback things to the correct track.

Well, this article will walk you through the solutions with which you can salvage your married relationship as well as set your kids on right track of life!

Tranquilize Your Queasy Mind!

It’s the right time when you should promptly single out an effective cell phone spy app. This app will answer to all your concerned reasons and doubts. It will let you hack into your target’s phone call logs, text messages, instant messenger chats, facebook chats and many more things taking place on his/her cell phone. Digging out all the information from their cell phones will help you uncover the truth. Check out the below list and know what all can you monitor on their smartphones.

Things That Can Be Monitored!

Get the logs of the Text messages/SMS and Phone calls
Know whom are they texting or calling as the logs would contain the number and the exact date and time details.

Listen and Record their Phone calls as well
This feature helps you get a concrete evidence by recording every call and saving it onto your dashboard for later reference. This feature is only catered by FlexiSpy.

Check the complete content of their Gallery
Images, videos and audios can be monitored very easily with the aid of a spy software.

Know their GPS location
Their whereabouts can be easily known to you by using the GPS tracker system on their smartphones.

Check the Email conversation and Phonebook records as well
The sent and received mails can be read by you at any time and also the contacts that are saved on your targets cell phone can be checked by you with the additional information attached with it like the birthday and address details etc.

Read/View their Instant Messenger chats
WhatsApp, Viber, BBM(BlackBerry Messenger) and Facebook chats can all be read and hence you can get assured of your suspicions. mSpy is Best when it comes to spy on instant messengers.

Surround listening
Via a microphone which is pre equipped in a cell phone, you will be able to listen to their surroundings as well. This feature will have you the knowledge of all their plans made behind your back. Only FlexiSpy provide this feature.

Monitor their Browsed Websites
This feature is especially designed for kids to check if they’re visiting any age inappropriate websites.

Note:
Parents should feel the responsibility of spying their teenaged children that whether they are using the internet for accumulating their study materials or they are occupied in doing the inappropriate stuff like watching porn websites or getting bullied or blackmailed of their gross selfies uploaded over social networking websites.

Now all the data or information which is gathered by using the aforementioned features gets uploaded on the websites control panel. This can be viewed by you from the password protected online account. Just login to the website to view the data records at any time. The spy software is providing you with another beneficiary point that is any deleted content from the monitored cell phone can still be accessible to you as it gets stored on the server before a user deletes it from his/her mobile phone.

Tick Mark The Subsequent Reasons For Spying!
# Are you in dilemma for your married relationship?

If you feel that your life partner is cheating on you but you’re not finding any reasonable acumen to face your better half then using a spy software will help you get an appropriate justification to frontage the harsh reality.

# Are you tired of your child(ren)’s white lies?

Apparently kids do lie when they’re in their teenage. Although sometimes it is for the night parties, sneak outs but this can become worse if they’re lying and asking for unnecessary money because they are indulged into drugs, smoking etc. Children’s safety is of the paramount  importance for the parents and hence opting for spy software is one of the validated reason.

Hack Someone’s Phone By Downloading:

FlexiSpy Spy Phone Software
mSpy Cell Phone Spy Software (Recommended)
Now, if the above stated points lie in the list of your concerns then; Finally, it is a good idea to track all the details of your target user with the aid of a cell phone spying software to be invulnerable from all the ingenious moves played by your loved ones intentionally or unintentionally.