For Security, Bluetooth is often not good

We had a great space Mashup this week, and our main conclusion is that satellites are at great risk of attack, and one of the key vectors is the usage of radio wave hacking (spoofing, hijacking, tapping, man-in-the-middle, and so on). We thus really need to start to understand how vulnerable our radio networks are, as an attack could bring down our critical infrastructure.

Bluetooth in cars

Over the next few months, we’re going to be presenting on a wide range of wi-fi vulnerabilities, and show how many the underlying methods are. One of the key targets is Bluetooth, and which really has fundamental problems. And so this week we published a paper on Bluetooth security weaknesses within cars [here]:

The work was carried out with a range of devices and looked at the security of the Bluetooth devices within a car. Overall the setup was:

And here is the monitoring station with its two Ubertooth devices: