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Kathleen Martin
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Singapore University of Technology and Design researchers have revealed a family of 20 vulnerabilities, which they collectively dubbed BrakTooth, that affect more than 1,400 products based on 13 different Bluetooth devices sold by 11 of the world's leading vendors.
The security flaws were confirmed to affect 1,400 smartphones, laptops, keyboards, headphones, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices. But that's a minimum. "As the BT stack is often shared across many products," the researchers said, "it is highly probable that many other products (beyond the ≈1400 entries observed in Bluetooth listing) are affected by BrakTooth."
BrakTooth can reportedly be exploited to conduct denial of service (DoS) attacks and enable arbitrary code execution (ACE) on target devices. DoS attacks can disrupt the victim's Bluetooth connection or, in some cases, require Bluetooth connectivity to be restarted manually. ACE can be used to erase user data, disable wireless connectivity, or interact with other devices.
Continue reading: https://www.pcmag.com/news/braktooth-vulnerabilities-affect-countless-bluetooth-devices
The security flaws were confirmed to affect 1,400 smartphones, laptops, keyboards, headphones, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices. But that's a minimum. "As the BT stack is often shared across many products," the researchers said, "it is highly probable that many other products (beyond the ≈1400 entries observed in Bluetooth listing) are affected by BrakTooth."
BrakTooth can reportedly be exploited to conduct denial of service (DoS) attacks and enable arbitrary code execution (ACE) on target devices. DoS attacks can disrupt the victim's Bluetooth connection or, in some cases, require Bluetooth connectivity to be restarted manually. ACE can be used to erase user data, disable wireless connectivity, or interact with other devices.
Continue reading: https://www.pcmag.com/news/braktooth-vulnerabilities-affect-countless-bluetooth-devices
