{"id":107931,"date":"2020-05-31T03:29:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T10:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/bluetooth-flaw-allows-impersonation-of-trusted-devices"},"modified":"2020-05-31T04:02:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T11:02:40","slug":"bluetooth-flaw-allows-impersonation-of-trusted-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/bluetooth-flaw-allows-impersonation-of-trusted-devices","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth flaw allows impersonation of trusted devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bluetooth-flaw-allows-impersonation-of-trusted-devices3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A flaw in a Bluetooth protocol is leaving millions of devices vulnerable to attacks, according to a study released by a Swiss research institute.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability, called Bluetooth Impersonation AttackS (BIAS), allows an intrusion by an attacker posing as a previously trusted Bluetooth device.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this paper, we demonstrate that the Bluetooth standard contains vulnerabilities enabling an attacker to impersonate a device and to establish a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/secure+connection\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">secure connection<\/a> with a victim, without possessing the long term key shared by the impersonated device and the victim,\u201d researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne said in their report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flaw in a Bluetooth protocol is leaving millions of devices vulnerable to attacks, according to a study released by a Swiss research institute. The vulnerability, called Bluetooth Impersonation AttackS (BIAS), allows an intrusion by an attacker posing as a previously trusted Bluetooth device. \u201cIn this paper, we demonstrate that the Bluetooth standard contains vulnerabilities [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107937,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107931\/revisions\/107937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}