Monday, June 12, 2006
InfoWorld: 'BlueBag' PC Sniffs out Bluetooth Flaws
Posted by Ekkie Tepsupornchai in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 02:00 PM
"If you happened to fly through Milan's Malpensa Airport last March, your mobile phone may have been scanned by the BlueBag. Billed as a research lab on wheels, BlueBag was created by Milan's Secure Network SRL to study how malicious software might be able to spread among devices that use the Bluetooth wireless standard.... In just under 23 hours of travel, BlueBag was able to spot more [than] 1,400 devices with which, in theory, it could have connected. Among the discoverable devices were a number of Nokia Corp.'s mobile phones and TomTom International BV's Go global positioning systems..."
I guess the term "Bluetooth Security" is becoming more and more of an oxymoron with each passing month. Nokia and TomTom were specifically called out because both manufacterers like to make their devices visible / discoverable other BT devices by default, exposing those devices to uneccessary risk. Give it a read... and make sure you BT enabled devices (especially your phone) are not discoverable unless manually invoked to be so!
I guess the term "Bluetooth Security" is becoming more and more of an oxymoron with each passing month. Nokia and TomTom were specifically called out because both manufacterers like to make their devices visible / discoverable other BT devices by default, exposing those devices to uneccessary risk. Give it a read... and make sure you BT enabled devices (especially your phone) are not discoverable unless manually invoked to be so!
