Taking the Teeth Out of Bluetooth Phracking
Short summary:
correct term for malicious hacking. Following the classic security mantra and most any Bluetooth adapter. attacks have included Blue Stumbling, Blue Snarfing, and Blue Jacking. Blue Stumbling is the Bluetooth equivalent to War Driving ...
Long summary:
Taking the Teeth Out of Bluetooth Phracking FEATURE T o be correct, your data can be phracked. Phracked, phracking, or phracker are the correct terms for a phone cracker or phone cracking. Cracking is the correct term for malicious hacking. Following the classic security mantra of using layered protection, we present several counter-hacks that untethered communicators can use to foil the would-be phracker. BLUETOOTH SECURITY BLUETOOTH BACKGROUND Bluetooth is a fairly recent technology that has faced its share of invasions. Notable attacks have included Blue Stumbling, Blue Snarfing, and Blue Jacking. Blue Stumbling is the Bluetooth equivalent to War Driving*. By using Blue Stumbling, phrackers (phone Taking the Teeth Out of Bluetooth Phracking Paris Hiltons hijacked phone notes, hot pics and movies, and celebrity contact info got her unwanted and undeserved notoriety. The incident also brought broad visibility to a blossoming dilemma: like computer data, our increasingly computer-like mobile phones contents can be hacked. by David Geer THE CRYPTOPHONE PSTN/1, GSMKS SECURE LANDLINE PHONE THAT IS FULLY INTEROPERABLE WITH GSMKS SECURE CELLULAR AND SATELLITE PHONES. 68 N UTS & V OL TS Everything For Electronics AUGUST 2005 crackers) can pinpoint Bluetooth gadgets (PDAs, Mobile Phones) within a small radius. (*With War Driving, a cracker drives around with a laptop and a special antenna engineered from a potato chip cylinder discovering unprotected Wi-Fi networks. Wi-Fi crackers do this so they can use your connection for free, crack another system through your connection while masquerading as you to steal data or deface websites, or simply mess with your head. Blue Stumbling is also referred to as War Walking.) Blue Snarfing is a technique that permits a phracker to rob data from your Bluetooth device without pairing (making a direct connection) with it. Phrackers cannot only surreptitiously retrieve information from your Bluetooth device, but also send information to it without exposing themselves or having to be acknowledged by the recipient. With Blue Jacking, phrackers can send infor mation to the Bluetooth device without pairing with it so that you wouldnt know who it was from. Its a kind of Bluetooth-based version of spamming. BOUNCING BLUETOOTH BREAK-INS For most all the above, protection is as easy as downloading and installing the latest firmware update for your phone. Other fundamental precautions include turning off the Bluetooth service when youre not using it. If its not running, it cant be hacked. Insure that your phone has encryption abilities and use them. Some brands offer seamless encryption thats always on to protect your Bluetooth connections so you never have to set it (check the manual for your hardware). Nokia is such a vendor. With Nokia Bluetooth enabled phones, the encryption is transparent to the user, always on, automatically protecting authenticated Bluetooth connections, including voice communications between a ...
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