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Kaspersky Lab On Bluetooth Hackers
Chris Crum
Staff Writer
2006-06-20
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As Bluetooth becomes more popular, naturally, hackers are taking advantage of it. Kaspersky Lab has researched this topic in London.
Over a three-day period, Kaspersky detected over 2,000 Bluetooth-enabled devices in the mode that allows hackers to take advantage - the 'visible to all' mode.
The results of Kaspersky's research have been detailed in a report by Kaspersky Lab's Senior Virus Analyst, Alexander Gostev called "Bluetooth: London 2006".
Gostev cites the following three ways in which hackers take advantage of Bluetooth"- Social engineering: hackers access information on a user's phone, either by using Bluetooth to establish a 'trusted device' connection, or by persuading the user to lower security/disable authentication for Bluetooth connections.
- Vulnerabilities in the protocol itself: hackers steal data from the telephone, make calls or send messages, conduct DoS attacks on the device, use a Bluetooth earpiece to listen to calls etc.
- Malicious code: hackers can infect a mobile device with a worm that will then send itself to other devices, by Bluetooth or by MMS, and corrupt data on the victim's phone To learn more about hackers and bluetooth, read the report here.
Tags: bluetooth, Kaspersky Lab
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Chris Crum is a staff writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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