Bluetooth BlueBorne Flaws Expose Billions of Devices to Security Risks | Linux Today

Bluetooth BlueBorne Flaws Expose Billions of Devices to Security Risks

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Sean Michael Kerner
Sep 12, 2017

Bluetooth is widely implemented in billions of devices and nearly all of those devices need to be patched for a new set of Bluetooth vulnerabilities dubbed BlueBorne.

The BlueBorne vulnerabilities were discovered by IoT security firm Armis and were first responsibly reported to the impacted vendors including Google, Microsoft and the Linux community. There is no indication to date, that the BlueBorne vulnerabilities have been exploited in the wild by attackers.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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