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F-Secure's Bluetooth Honeypot Prototype
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:06:15 GMT
I've always figured that Bluetooth was going to be a _huge_ security issue from Day_1 -- it's just a matter of time, in my opinion, before it _really_ gets bad. :-) This is pretty interesting. Via the F-Secure "News from the Lab" Blog. [snip] We've been developing a Bluetooth honeypot. An early prototype was given a test run at the CeBIT trade fair during the week. The embedded device announces itself as a Bluetooth phone in discoverable mode. It detects Bluetooth devices within a one hundred meter range and creates a list of the device names found. It also accepts all file transfers and scans them for known mobile viruses. We were scanning from our Hall 7 booth for a week. At any given time we would see more than 100 Bluetooth devices wandering within our range. Grand total: 12500 unique devices that a) had Bluetooth, b) had it enabled, c) had it visible. Unbelievable. [snip] http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00000836 - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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