pixel security

Google has sharply tightened Android’s lock-screen defenses in Android 17, reducing the lifetime number of incorrect PIN, pattern, or password guesses from as many as 1,800 under the old baseline to 20. The change is already rolling out to supported Pixel devices and is intended to make stolen...

A recently leaked Microsoft Teams briefing has pulled back the curtain on how commercial phone-unlocking vendors describe their capabilities against modern Google Pixel devices — and the slide deck circulating in security communities suggests the reality is both more capable and more limited...