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March 31, 2004
Bluetooth security hole snarfing
La^2 writes "The Austrian research company Salzburg Research did a field trial at the CeBIT 2004 that confirms the seriousness of the recently discovered bluetooth security loophole in the firmware of popular mobile phones. In this trial, 1269 unique bluetooth-enabled devices were discovered, and their vulnerability to the so-called SNARF attack checked.... [Slashdot]
According to BlueStumbler.org, the T610 (and its sister the T616 that I have) are only vulnerable if you have then in Visible mode. Still might not be a bad idea to turn off Bluetooth when not in use though.
Posted by Kevin Railsback at March 31, 2004 11:41 AM
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