Patched MS Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Even Disconnected PCs

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @09:11PM from the you-are-the-one-neo dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Among the 22 security holes Microsoft issued updates to fix yesterday is a critical kernel-level Bluetooth flaw that could let nearby attackers break into vulnerable systems even when the targeted computer is not connected to a network. An attacker could use the bug to gain access to any unpatched, Bluetooth-enabled Windows Vista or Win7 computer within 100 meters (or much further with specialized tools), all before the target system even gets an alert that another computer is requesting a Bluetooth connection."

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Consequences? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-12 21:25 · Score: -1, Troll

Sounds ridiculous for a system software used in military installations, cash machines, banks, and pretty much everywhere. And that's not even the 'government way' of reaching into private information, which is at least encrypted. It's pretty much 'no way of knowing who and if' data was seeped out.
I cannot imagine more definitive example of Unsecure.
Still nothing will change. MS will issue a patch and the thing will go as nothing happened. Cash will continue to flow and that's the only thing that will be monitored.