Android makes it shockingly easy for phone thieves to steal your Google account
Read update Apple and Google have made it so easy to load our entire lives onto our phones while also keeping all that information protected withadvanced authentication methods. But there’s a crucial weak link that can open up everything within if you’re unlucky enough to be watched and that’sthe authentication method you use to unlock your phone. We don’t want to fearmonger you into any unnecessary action, but with a rise of highly-coordinated iPhone thefts in the past couple of years, we do think it’s a good idea that you upgrade from a numerical passcode to at least an alphanumeric password....