The academic research institution Eurecom has discovered security holes in the Bluetooth wireless standard that could allow a threat agent to impersonate devices and set up man-in-the middle attacks. The holes have been in several versions of the Bluetooth protocol, including the current 5.4 version, as well as the 5.3 version that’s used in Apple’s current hardware lineup. Eurecom has developed a set of attacks called “Bluetooth Forward and Future Secrecy” (BLUFFS) that exploit the discovered Bluetooth weaknesses. According
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