iPhone and Android smartphone series stick with serious Bluetooth security error

Recently, the famous security research organization of the United States, CERT has discovered a series of devices with integrated Bluetooth connectivity today (including iPhone, a series of Android smartphones, personal computers, tablets ) all have a serious security hole.

This security hole on the Bluetooth wireless connection occurs at the data encryption process and goes to another device, in the Diffie-Hellman encryption key exchange protocol, so hackers can take advantage of it to steal data. without access to attack equipment. Not only are simple notification data, but an attacker can also steal two-layer security codes or important personal data.

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According to GSM Arena, this security vulnerability appears on all devices that use Bluetooth wireless chips from Intel, Qualcomm or Broadcom.

CERT has sent warnings to affected manufacturers since early 2018 and by June they all had updated the security and patched this security hole.

To avoid being affected by this vulnerability, iPhone or Android devices should be updated to the latest version of the operating system.

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