Technology security experts have recently
revealed that there appear to shortcomings in the security features built into
the Bluetooth short range radio technology.
Laboratory tests have shown that the flaw
can potentially allow someone within range of a mobile phone with Bluetooth
enabled could access that phone’s address book and other information – the
equivalent of picking your pocket.
A spokesman for the Bluetooth SIG (Special
Interest Group) that oversees the “core” specification said that the issues had
not yet been “publicly verified” but was an issue of which the security group
were aware.
Others in the industry feel that there are
much easier ways of stealing address information from mobile phones – like
stealing the phone itself, rather than electronic “eavesdropping”.
However, it is an issue that will not go
away and one which those responsible for the specification will have to address
soon.
