Bluesnarfing At CeBIT 2004

La^2 writes "The Austrian research company Salzburg Research did a field trial at the CeBIT 2004 that confirms the seriousness of the recently discovered bluetooth security loophole in the firmware of popular mobile phones. In this trial, 1269 unique bluetooth-enabled devices were discovered, and their vulnerability to the so-called SNARF attack checked. The report on this bluesnarfing at large scale has interesting statistics, which may not please some of the vendors." (And the CeBIT version of Knoppix was apparently being used to slurp up and display Bluetooth phone information, too.)

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Bluesnarfing

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I had to google for this one ...

Basically, Bluesnarfing is an exploit of a Bluetooth vulnerability to access data stored on the mobile device.

A more detailed explanation can be found here