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Bluetooth attacks - literally - in Europe
May 15, 2004;
Europe in Bluetooth panic - no wonder: Bluetooth equipped cell phones are much popular there than in USA.

All over media (TV, press) in Europe there is plenty of warnings, that users should switch off Bluetooth in their cell phones - or at least switch off the "discoverable" feature (mode "invisible" should be switched on), or otherwise their face data spying of their cell phones (for example: reading phone book entries remotely), remote control of their cell phones (for example: starting Internet connections or calling costly 0900 phone numbers) or causing phone crash - all caused by Bluetooth attackers.

Cell phones susceptible to "remote control" Bluetooth attacks are:

Nokia 6310i
Nokia 6650
Sony Ericsson T610
Sony Ericsson T68i

Cell phones susceptible to "data spying" by Bluetooth attackers are:

Nokia 6310
Nokia 6310i
Sony Ericsson T610
Sony Ericsson T630
Sony Ericsson T68i
Sony Ericsson Z600

Cell phones susceptible to "crash the phone" Bluetooth attacks are:

Siemens S55
Panasonic X700
Nokia 7600
Nokia 6820
Nokia 6810
Nokia 6230

Source: Matthias Rosche from Integralis - a security company.

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