Research published this month by a team from Boston University has revealed a number of flaws in the way that Bluetooth Low Energy functionality is implemented on a wide range of consumer devices.
These devices – including both Apple and Microsoft Bluetooth devices – advertise their availability on open channels, and this opens the way for global device tracking. With spyware in the IoT becoming a major source of concern for cybersecurity researchers, this new research indicates that the problem may be even larger than we imagined.
