Sentences with phrase «gains physical access to your device»

An encryption application will protect data even if somebody gains physical access to your device.

OnePlus has taken the steps to rectify these gaps, and the Engineer Mode flaw in particular is only particularly damaging if an attacker is able to gain physical access to your device and get past your lock screen — which would be cause for concern no matter what phone you're using.

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The app lets users gain root access to the device without the need for unlocking its bootloader — which is a way to say that malicious users could get to the core of a OnePlus phone and install malware with ease, although they would likely need physical access to it.

With access to JavaScript on mobile devices, ebooks can potentially gain access to information about the reading device itself, such as the location of the reader in the physical world, or the device's orientation, or even add photos and video from the device's camera.

A security researcher discovered that HP laptops come with hidden keylogger software that hackers can activate if they gain physical access to the target device.

In addition, gaining root access is only possible if users have activated USB debugging, and hackers will need to have physical access to the target device.

Regardless, the fact that the attacker would need physical access to the device in order to gain root access to it via EngineerMode means that the existence of the diagnostics tool isn't considered a major security vulnerability by OnePlus, especially since not even that scenario would allow for backdoor root privileges to be granted to potentially malicious apps.

Not only could thieves gain physical access to the home, but they could also be privy to a large volume of information about the owners that might be stored on devices or in the cloud.