Bluetooth security talk at Defcon
Bluetooth security talk at Defcon
- Subject: Bluetooth security talk at Defcon
- From: feorlen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:25:08 -0700
Bruce Potter, from the Shmoo Group, gave a talk about Bluetooth
security at Defcon this weekend. A lot was intro for folks who don't
know much about it, but he also talked about his sniffing tool. It's
called Bluesniff and it's a front-end for redfang, a fairly primitive
tool released recently. (See this article at
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/5896.)
These tools are both at the proof-of-concept stage and their authors
are attempting to get people talking seriously about Bluetooth
security. Bruce's comments about possible exploits mostly were how
applications are vulnerable because of poor or nonexistent
implementation of security features. Also, Bluetooth is a particularly
attractive target because the data passed over the air is very
personalized, and could be used by a motivated attacker to track
individuals.
You can get the presentation and Bluesniff at the website:
http://bluesniff.shmoo.com/
Andrea
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