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Over a billion Bluetooth-enabled devices, including smartphones, laptops, smart IoT devices, and industrial devices, have been found vulnerable to a high severity vulnerability that could allow attackers to spy on data transmitted between the two devices. The vulnerability, assigned as CVE-2019-9506, resides in the way ‘encryption key negotiation protocol’ lets two Bluetooth BR/EDR devices choose […]
Another Bluetooth attack technique has been disclosed Specialists in enterprise data protection services have found a highly critical vulnerability that affects some Bluetooth implementations that could allow a not authenticated attacker in physical proximity of specific devices intercept, control or manipulate exchanged traffic. Identified as CVE-2018-5383, the vulnerability affects the firmware or operating system software drivers of several […]
Sławomir Jasek with research firm SecuRing is sounding an alarm over the growing number of Bluetooth devices used for keyless entry and mobile point-of-sales systems that are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. Jasek said the problem is traced back to devices that use the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) feature for access control. He said too often […]