Security News

Bluetooth enhances support for location services with new direction finding feature
2019-01-29 03:05

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) revealed a new direction finding feature that holds the potential to enhance the performance of Bluetooth location services solutions. The new feature...

Texas Instruments flicks Armis' Bluetooth chip vuln off its shoulder
2018-12-11 10:32

Yeah, we've patched that one, adds Cisco Texas Instruments has rather feebly slapped down infosec researchers' findings on a so-called Bleedingbit Bluetooth Low Energy vulnerability after a more...

Rigado Gateway to use new AWS IoT Greengrass features enabling Bluetooth to cloud integration
2018-12-05 02:00

Internet of Things (IoT) applications and solutions using Bluetooth sensors now have a path from device to the cloud with little to no coding required. Rigado’s Cascade IoT Gateway has integrated...

New Vehicle Hack Exposes Users’ Private Data Via Bluetooth
2018-11-19 17:25

People who have synced their mobile phones with a wide variety of vehicle infotainment systems may have have their personal information exposed to a new type of vehicle hack, security researchers...

Two New Bluetooth Chip Flaws Expose Millions of Devices to Remote Attacks
2018-11-01 18:48

Security researchers have unveiled details of two critical vulnerabilities in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips embedded in millions of access points and networking devices used by enterprises...

Bluetooth Chip Flaws Expose Enterprises to Remote Attacks
2018-11-01 15:36

Millions of access points and other networking devices used by enterprises around the world may be exposed to remote attacks due to a couple of vulnerabilities discovered by researchers in...

Week in review: Bluetooth flaw, ERP applications under attack, advancing security with machine learning
2018-07-30 01:23

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: SCADA vulnerabilities in ICS architectures A major challenge in industrial control system architecture involves the...

Major Bluetooth Vulnerability
2018-07-25 19:08

Bluetooth has a serious security vulnerability: In some implementations, the elliptic curve parameters are not all validated by the cryptographic algorithm implementation, which may allow a remote...

Bluetooth vulnerability allows snooping of traffic between paired devices
2018-07-24 18:48

Researchers Eli Biham and Lior Neumann have discovered a vulnerability in two Bluetooth features that could be exploited by attackers to gain a man-in-the-middle position and to monitor and fiddle...

Bluetooth Bug Allows Man-in-the-Middle Attacks on Phones, Laptops
2018-07-24 18:03

A high-severity flaw could result in attackers intercepting information, elevation of privilege and/or denial of service.