Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Lock Screen ByPass Secured by Lookout Mobile

            The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 lock screen is anything but locked these days, but users don’t need to wait for Samsung and carriers to test and approve a fix for this security issue.

          

             Like the Samsung Galaxy S3 lock screen fix, Lookout Mobile offers a quick fix that will keep quick fingered data thieves from bypassing the lock screen on the Galaxy Note 2.

          

            The Lookout Mobile app doesn’t fix the underlying security issue with the Samsung Emergency Dialer in Android 4.1.2, but it will keep users safe for the time being.

        

             David Richardson, senior product manager at Lookout Mobile tells Gotta Be Mobile, this issue is “limited to devices running the newer versions of Touchwiz.” Richardson and his team spent plenty of time staring at Samsung lock screens over the past few weeks to come up with a fix that could reach users faster than an official patch.

        

            This is the latest of many lock screen bypass issues for Samsung and Apple. In this round, a dedicated hacker discovered a series of button presses and taps that allows a fast fingered fiend to install an app that disables the lock screen, without the need to know a passcode or security pattern. The process is a bit convoluted, and it may not matter to the average user, but it certainly isn’t a welcome sign to IT managers and business users who switched over to Samsung this year.