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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.)
Keep it down, folks! Bluetooth is almost dead, why add oil to the fire :)
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What is bluetooth? Some sort of disease? You might want to have the dentist take a look. Doesn't sound too healthy.
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