Bluetooth security still a challenge

Bluetooth offers a tremendous opportunity for mobile users, but Ooi Szu-Khiam, senior security consultant at Symantec, says that security is still a big issue. Indeed, research firm InsightExpress revealed that 73 percent of mobile device users are not aware of security issues that could put mobile devices such as cell phones and Bluetooth-equipped notebooks at risk. "There are many other methods that (launch) a variety of denial-of-service attacks, and even some that could allow an attack to eavesdrop on private conversations," Szu-Khiam told Cnet.  He also noted that "numerous instances of mobile viruses, worms and Trojan horses" have occurred in the last year. Some of the terms used to describe these security vulnerabilities: bluejacking, bluespamming and bluebugging.

For more information on Bluetooth security:
- see the article in Cnet