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Security researchers have discovered new Bluetooth security flaws that allow hackers to impersonate devices and perform man-in-the-middle attacks.

The vulnerabilities impact all devices with Bluetooth 4.2 through Bluetooth 5.4, including laptops, PCs, smartphones, tablets, and others.

Users can do nothing at the moment to fix the vulnerabilities, and the solution requires device manufacturers to make changes to the security mechanisms used by the technology.

Research paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3576915.3623066

Github: https://github.com/francozappa/bluffs

CVE: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24023

[–] bless@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I would go with wireguard VPN or something like cloudflare tunnels or tailscale. With wireguard you'll need to open up an external port and forward to your VPN host, but wireguard uses UDP so no one can probe it for responses. CF tunnels and tailscale you don't have to open up holes in your firewall which is nice.

You also have the option of using a proxy and opening up 443 publicly on your firewall, but unless you know what you're doing I'd leave that closed until you learn more.

 
  • Security researchers have discovered new Bluetooth security flaws that allow hackers to impersonate devices and perform man-in-the-middle attacks.

  • The vulnerabilities impact all devices with Bluetooth 4.2 through Bluetooth 5.4, including laptops, PCs, smartphones, tablets, and others.

  • Users can do nothing at the moment to fix the vulnerabilities, and the solution requires device manufacturers to make changes to the security mechanisms used by the technology.

Research paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3576915.3623066

Github: https://github.com/francozappa/bluffs

CVE: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24023