Bug lets you bypass Samsung Galaxy S3's lockscreen for full phone access

It seems Samsung has to follow suit with almost everything Apple does. We have already seen a couple of ways to bypass the lockscreen on any iDevice running iOS 6.1, and after it was revealed yesterday that the Galaxy Note 2's lockscreen can be briefly bypassed to access the home screen, a major bug has now been found on Samsung’s flagship, the Galaxy S3. An S3 owner claims that the bug allows full access to the device. Security newsletter Full Disclosure's Sean McMillian has posted a variation of the method used to bypass the Note 2's lockscreen to defeat the Galaxy S3's security system. Instead of launching an application on the home screen, which was possible through the earlier bug, McMillian detailed how an attacker could access everything on the phone by simply locking the screen and then unlocking it again.