Bluetooth Hacking: A Case Study

Dennis Browning
Champlain College Center for Digital Investigation
Burlington, Vermont
dennisbrowning@gmail.com

Gary C. Kessler
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Champlain College Center for Digital Investigation
Burlington, Vermont
Edith Cowan University
Perth, Western Australia
gary.kessler@champlain.edu
 

ABSTRACT

This paper describes a student project examining mechanisms with which to attack Bluetooth-enabled devices. The paper briefly describes the protocol architecture of Bluetooth and the Java interface that programmers can use to connect to Bluetooth communication services. Several types of attacks are described, along with a detailed example of two attack tools, Bloover II and BT Info.

Keywords: Bluetooth hacking, mobile phone hacking, wireless hacking.