Bluetooth: With Low Energy Comes Low Security

We discuss our tools and techniques to monitor and inject packets in Bluetooth Low Energy. Also known as BTLE or Bluetooth Smart, it is found in recent high-end smartphones, sports devices, sensors, and will soon appear in many medical devices. We show that we can effectively render useless the encryption of any Bluetooth Low Energy link.

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Mike Ryan, iSEC Partners

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@inproceedings {179196, author = {Mike Ryan}, title = {Bluetooth: With Low Energy Comes Low Security}, booktitle = {Presented as part of the 7th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies}, year = {2013}, location = {Washington, D.C.}, url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot13/workshop-program/presentation/Ryan}, publisher = {USENIX}, address = {Berkeley, CA} } <br><a href="/biblio/export/bibtex/179196">Download</a>
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We discuss our tools and techniques to monitor and inject packets in Bluetooth Low Energy. Also known as BTLE or Bluetooth Smart, it is found in recent high-end smartphones, sports devices, sensors, and will soon appear in many medical devices. We show that we can effectively render useless the encryption of any Bluetooth Low Energy link.

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