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Bluetooth phones at risk from 'snarfing'

Feb 9, 2004 1:52AM PST

Munir Kotadia
ZDNet UK
February 09, 2004, 14:15 GMT

A serious Bluetooth security vulnerability allows mobile phone users' contact books to be stolen. You've heard of bluejacking - now meet 'bluesnarfing'


A security flaw has been discovered in Bluetooth that lets an attacker download all contact details along with other information from a vulnerable phone, while leaving no trace of the attack.


Unlike bluejacking, which is where users can send a message to Bluetooth phones without authorisation, this latest discovery for the wireless-data standard allows data, such as telephone numbers and diary entries, stored in a vulnerable device to be stolen by the attacker. The new exploit is called bluesnarfing.


http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/wireless/0,39020348,39145881,00.htm

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