Collaborate Disseminate
tl;dr: My Toyota Aygo sends Text/SMS messages through Bluetooth and my mobile phone. These messages are delivered to the recipient, but there is no sign of them in my Messages app.
Should I be concern? Is this some kind of security issue?… Continue reading Can sending a hidden Text/SMS messages be considered a security issue?
The flaw was recently patched in Android’s February Security Bulletin. Continue reading Critical Android Bluetooth Bug Enables RCE, No User Interaction Needed
So far I understood that from Bluetooth 4.2 onwards the Pass Key method is safer due to pre-shared public keys and a 128-bit encryption key. After this pairing process occurs, is the link between the two devices kept encrypted? Meaning tha… Continue reading Bluetooth 5 – is a pass key enough?
Hackers could exploit a flaw on unpatched Android 8.0 and 9.0 phones to run malicious code such as a worm, with no user interaction required.
Continue reading Android users at risk from Bluetooth hijack attack, and are warned of “short distance worm” threat
I am currently looking into how to protect a BLE connection from active attacks (man-in-the-middle) if one of the devices neither has a display nor a keyboard.
Lemberg Solutions suggests this:
Alternatively, the passcode can be shipp… Continue reading Bluetooth LE with Secure Connection and static passkey: This is a bad idea, right?
Bluetooth is a technology with a very interesting history. When it first came around in the late 1990s, it promised to replace the mess of wires that was tucked behind every desk of the day. Unfortunately, the capabilities of early Bluetooth didn’t live up to the hype, and it never …read more
The search for the ultimate hacker’s smart watch probably won’t end any time soon. [emeryth] has nominated another possible candidate in the form of the SMA-Q2, and has made a lot of progress in making it accessible.
Also known as the SMA-TIME, the watch is based around the …read more
Historically, the subject of our January teardown has been a piece of high-tech holiday lighting from the clearance rack; after all, they can usually be picked up for pocket change once the trucks full of Valentine’s Day merchandise start pulling up around the back of your local Big Box retailer. …read more
Google has updated its Smart Lock to let iOS users security-dongle-ize their iPhones. Continue reading Google will now accept your iPhone as an authentication key
[Adnan.R.Khan] had a sliding door latch plus an Arduino, and hacked together this cool but simple app controlled door lock.
Mechanically the lock consists of a Solarbotics GM3 motor, some Meccano, and a servo arm. A string is tied between two pulleys and looped around the slide of a barrel …read more