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A Simple Way to Improve the Security of Bluetooth Devices
July 28-August 01
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SAINT.2008.392008 International Symposium on Appli ...
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Bluetooth is a de facto standard feature in mobile devices such as smart phones, PDAs and similar devices. While this provides great convenience to the user, there are a number of security issues for which exploits are widely available. This fact, combined with the growing sophistication of devices, creates the potential for serious loss in the event of a security breach. This paper investigates the use of Bluetooth profiles by the public and finds that some potentially high-risk profiles are not widely used. A subsequent investigation of a number of devices determined that no way of configuring individual profiles was available. The paper concludes with a recommendation that devices allow users to configure individual Bluetooth profiles.
Index Terms:
Bluetooth, security
Citation:
Peter Dell, Khwaja Shan-ul-Hasan Ghori, "A Simple Way to Improve the Security of Bluetooth Devices," saint, pp.444-447, 2008 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, 2008
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