Security News > 2017 > September > BlueBorne: Critical Bluetooth Attack Puts Billions of Devices at Risk of Hacking

2017-09-12 10:11
If you are using a Bluetooth enabled device, be it a smartphone, laptop, smart TV or any other IoT device, you are at risk of malware attacks that can carry out remotely to take over your device even without requiring any interaction from your side. Security researchers have just discovered total 8 zero-day vulnerabilities in Bluetooth protocol that impact more than 5.3 Billion devices—from
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