Detecting Malicious Trackers
May 21 2024From Slashdot:
Apple and Google have launched a new industry standard called “Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers” to combat the misuse of Bluetooth trackers for stalking. Starting Monday,...
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New Bluetooth Attack
December 8 2023New attack breaks forward secrecy in Bluetooth.
BLUFFS is a series of exploits targeting Bluetooth, aiming to break Bluetooth sessions’ forward and future...
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Crashing iPhones with a Flipper Zero
November 6 2023The Flipper Zero is an incredibly versatile hacking device. Now it can be used to crash iPhones in its vicinity by sending them a never-ending stream of pop-ups.
These...
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Tracking People via Bluetooth on Their Phones
June 17 2022We’ve always known that phones—and the people carrying them—can be uniquely identified from their Bluetooth signatures, and that we need security techniques to prevent that. This new research...
Read moreO! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive.
Read moreLocks that use Bluetooth Low Energy to authenticate keys are vulnerable to remote unlocking. The research focused on Teslas, but the exploit is generalizable.
In a video shared with...
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Researchers have demonstrated iPhone malware that works even when the phone is fully shut down.
t turns out that the iPhone’s Bluetooth chip — which is key to making...
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Cheating on Tests
October 4 2021Interesting story of test-takers in India using Bluetooth-connected flip-flops to communicate with accomplices while taking a test. What’s interesting is how this cheating was discovered. It’s not that someone noticed...
Read moreTracking People by their MAC Addresses
September 6 2021Yet another article on the privacy risks of static MAC addresses and always-on Bluetooth connections. This one is about wireless headphones.
The good news is that product vendors are...
Read moreSecurity Analysis of Apple’s “Find My…” Protocol
March 15 2021
Interesting research: “Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apple’s Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System“:
Abstract: Overnight, Apple has turned its hundreds-of-million-device ecosystem into the world’s largest...
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