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Millions of devices vulnerable to BLURtooth info leak bug – iTnews
Industry Bluetooth Special Interest Group suggests mitigations.
United States cyber security authorities and the Bluetooth SIG have issued alerts for a vulnerability that permits man-in-the-middle attacks by unauthorised users, potentially affecting hundreds of millions of devices with the wireless data transport protocol.
Named BLURtooth, researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in France and Purdue University in the United States discovered that they could overwrite or weaken strong encryption keys used for pairing Bluetooth devices securel…
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