Bluetooth Flaw Found in Laptops

A flaw has been found in the Bluetooth stack on various Toshiba, Dell, Asus, Sony and other brands of laptops. The flaw could enable someone who knows how to exploit it to cause a 'blue screen of death' via Bluetooth.
Now, granted, the person would have to be within about 1 meters of their prey but I can see someone quietly sipping their latte at Starbucks and causing lots of havoc at the same time.
Article: Bluetooth flaw found in laptops
Tags: bluetooth, bsod, flaw, hack

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 6/20/2006 01:13:00 PM.

1 Comments:

This would be an awesome trick for a barcamp get together.

By Randy Charles Morin, at 6/20/2006 05:25:00 PM

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