USN-4989-2: BlueZ vulnerabilities

USN-4989-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in BlueZ. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that BlueZ incorrectly checked certain permissions when pairing. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to impersonate device...

[SECURITY] [DLA 2410-1] bluez security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-2410-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Chris Lamb October 21, 2020 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS -...

Introduction to Bluetooth Low Energy

Bluetooth Low Energy BLE is used by almost everyone in our everyday lives, from wireless headphones, to car stereos, computer keyboards and mice, and other everyday items. Even though this standard is popular there seems a general lack of understanding of how it works and what certain terms mean...

Sparrow-Wifi - Next-Gen GUI-based WiFi And Bluetooth Analyzer For Linux

Sparrow-wifi has been built from the ground up to be the next generation 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wifi spectral awareness tool. At its most basic it provides a more comprehensive GUI-based replacement for tools like inSSIDer and linssid that runs specifically on linux. In its most comprehensive use case...

BlueMaho v090417 - Bluetooth Security Testing Suite

BlueMaho is GUI-shell interface for suite of tools for testing security of bluetooth devices. It is freeware, opensource, written on python, uses wxPyhon. It can be used for testing BT-devices for known vulnerabilities and major thing to do - testing to find unknown vulns. Also it can form nice...

Pwn Pad Android device, Network hacking machine launched

Security tools company Pwnie Express is making a network hacking focused Android device called the Pwn Pad. The device is based on the Google Nexus 7 specs, with USB-based Bluetooth, Ethernet and WiFi to gauge the security of a network beyond what Google's tablet can manage on its own. Pwn Pad wi...

Pwn Pad Android device, Network hacking machine launched

Security tools company Pwnie Express is making a network hacking focused Android device called the Pwn Pad. The device is based on the Google Nexus 7 specs, with USB-based Bluetooth, Ethernet and WiFi to gauge the security of a network beyond what Google's tablet can manage on its own. Pwn Pad wi...