What is Bluebugging and how do hackers use it? Learn how to secure your devices
Bluebugging is a process of hacking through which hackers can gain access to devices with discoverable Bluetooth connections. Following …
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Apple iOS and macOS Flaw Could’ve Let Apps Eavesdrop on Your Conversations with Siri
A now-patched security flaw in Apple’s iOS and macOS operating systems could have potentially enabled apps with Bluetooth access to …
Google Patches Critical Android Bluetooth Flaw in August Security Bulletin
Google published its monthly security bulletin for August on Monday, detailing the latest available patches for Android. A total of 37 …
Researchers Find Bluetooth Signals Can be Fingerprinted to Track Smartphones
A new research undertaken by a group of academics from the University of California San Diego has revealed for the first time that …
You can be tracked via your Bluetooth signal, researchers claim
Boffins at the University of California San Diego have found a way to track individuals via Bluetooth. Researchers discovered that the …
Hardware flaws give Bluetooth chipsets unique fingerprints that can be tracked
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have shown for the first time that Bluetooth signals each have an individual, …
Pentester pops open Tesla Model 3 using low-cost Bluetooth module
Tesla Model 3 and Y owners, beware: the passive entry feature on your vehicle could potentially be fooled by a new form of relay …
Issue in digital COVID-19 test could have allowed individuals to falsify results
WithSecure and Cue Health have worked together to address a security issue that WithSecure discovered in Cue’s COVID-19 test, which …
Smashing Security podcast #266: Dick pics, secret spies, and Kaspersky
Germany tells consumers to stop using Kaspersky anti-virus products, OSINT reveals a secret government department (with help from an Apple …
Fisher Price’s Bluetooth reboot of pre-school play phone has adult privacy flaw
A Bluetooth phone designed to evoke the carefree days of early childhood has been found to instead threaten the very adult prospect of …
Researchers Share New Attacks on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Chips
Researchers have revealed new attacks that can exploit shared resources between Wi-Fi and Bluetooth components on a variety of …
Bugs in billions of WiFi, Bluetooth chips allow password, data theft
Researchers at the University of Darmstadt, Brescia, CNIT, and the Secure Mobile Networking Lab, have published a paper that proves it’s …
BrakTooth Proof of Concept Tool Demonstrates Bluetooth Vulnerabilities
On November 1, 2021, researchers publicly released a BrakTooth proof-of-concept (PoC) tool to test Bluetooth-enabled devices against …
How your phone, laptop, or watch can be tracked by their Bluetooth transmissions
Over the past few years, mobile devices have become increasingly chatty over the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol and this turns out to …