Turn off Bluetooth when it is not needed to minimize exposure to vulnerabilities, especially when near untrusted individuals. (From 2017)
When Bluetooth is on in a device, it is constantly open to and waiting for potential connections. So a BlueBorne attack starts by going through the process Webroot's Dufour describes—scanning for devices that have Bluetooth on and probing them for information such as device type and operating system to see if they have the relevant vulnerabilities. Once an attacker identifies vulnerable targets, the hack is quick and flexible.
As with virtually all Bluetooth remote exploits, attackers would still need to be in range of the device to pull off a BlueBorne attack. But even with the extensive and productive BlueBorne patching that has already happened, there are still likely plenty of vulnerable devices in any populated area or building.The importance of Bluetooth defense has become increasingly clear, and the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, which manages the standard, has focused on security in recent versions.
Security's often a matter of weighing risk and reward, defense versus convenience. In the case of Bluetooth, it's an easy call.is a senior writer at WIRED focused on information security, digital privacy, and hacking. She previously worked as a technology reporter at Slate magazine and was the staff writer for Future Tense, a publication and project of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. Additionally...
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