{"id":269759,"date":"2018-07-26T16:24:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T14:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=269759"},"modified":"2018-07-26T16:25:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T14:25:48","slug":"bluetooth-bug-lets-hackers-snoop-on-data-exchanged-between-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/269759-bluetooth-bug-lets-hackers-snoop-on-data-exchanged-between-devices.html","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth bug lets hackers snoop on data exchanged between devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Technion &#8211; Israel Institute of Technology have <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.technion.ac.il\/~biham\/BT\/bt-fixed-coordinate-invalid-curve-attack.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disclosed<\/a><\/strong> a serious vulnerability in the Bluetooth protocol which lets attackers intercept and tamper with data transmitted between devices.<\/p>\n<p>Vulnerable data includes contacts, keystrokes from a wireless keyboard, and the information from medical, point-of-sale, or automotive equipment, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2018\/07\/decade-old-bluetooth-flaw-lets-hackers-steal-data-passing-between-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ars Technica reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The report also noted that an attacker could forge keystrokes on a Bluetooth keyboard to open a command window or malicious website.<\/p>\n<p>For an attack to succeed, both paired devices\u00a0must be vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Google, Intel, and Apple have issued patches for the vulnerability.\u00a0LG and Huawei have also released security fixes for certain devices.<\/p>\n<p>Carnegie Mellon University&#8217;s CERT divison lists Microsoft as unaffected by the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Microsoft implements an old version of the standard, which is even less secure, rather than the broken contemporary standard,&#8221; the researchers stated.<\/p>\n<p>Full details about the disclosure and vendors who have issued patches can be found on the researchers&#8217; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.technion.ac.il\/~biham\/BT\/#disc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">webpage.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/232189-turning-off-wi-fi-and-bluetooth-in-ios-11-is-not-what-it-seems.html\">Turning off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in iOS 11 is not what it seems<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have disclosed a serious vulnerability in the Bluetooth protocol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":145853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1027],"class_list":["post-269759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-bluetooth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269775,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269759\/revisions\/269775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}