Everybody is having a Bluetooth phone nowadays,and we are merely concerned about the safety of these vulnerable and penetrable devices. BE it Nokia,Sony or Bluetooth Security - The Tools,the Rules and stuff.. any other brand,the technology remains same and provides whackers (wireless malicious hackers) new playground for their experiments.In this article,I will be listing some Bluetooth tools for security – both breaking and making.
Bluediving
It is a security and Bluetooth penetration testing suite and implements attacks like BlueSnarf,BlueSnarf++ and BlueSmack.
It features Bluetooth address spoofing,socket shells like AT and RFCOMM and also implements tools like L2CAP packet generator and connection resetter and RSCOMM scanner which are a must for any Bluetooth security enthusiastic.
Download BlueDiving
Blooover
Blooover (and Blooover 2) is a tool that is intended to run on J2ME enabled cell phones that appear to be comparably seamless.It serves as an audit tool that people use to check if their phones and phones of friends :P are vulnerable or not.
Also there is also a tool “Super Bluetooth Hack” which is quite popular nowadays to hack into Bluetooth devices.
Download Blooover
Medieval Bluetooth Network Scanner
This program can analyze and scan your Bluetooth network, giving detailed information about local and remote devices found. You can also browse supported services of each device in a clear and straightforward user-interface. If you have a Bluetooth dongle installed on your PC, download "Medieval Bluetooth Network Scanner" now, it's totally free of charge and very handy!
It can deep scan all services of your Bluetooth device using this software.
Download Medieval Bluetooth Network Scanner
These software are free to use and quite handy to audit.However you,you ought to follow some basic rules of Bluetooth security for maximum protection-
* Switch off Bluetooth when not in use.
* Purchase only devices having long PIN codes.
* Refrain from entering the PIN into Bluetooth device for pairing.
* Limit the electric power itself to keep range of network within physical area (for Bluetooth enabled routers and devices other than cell phones).
* Always generate initialization keys when 2 Bluetooth devices meet for the first time.
* Never allow auto connection (Big loophole in Cell phone devices,easily exploited by a bit of social engineering).
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The WIRELESS KEYLOGGER
is a tiny plug-in device that records every keystroke typed on any PC.
It can then be accessed wirelessly to obtain the recorded data.
The WIRELESS KEYLOGGER combines the stealth aspect of a hardware keylogger and the remote monitoring ability of a software keylogger into one great device.
It cannot be detected by any kind of software!
More Info :
http://wirelesskeylogger.com/
• Connect your Pen Drive or USB drive to your computer.
• Now a dialogue window will popup asking you to choose among the options as Don’t choose any of them , Just simply click Cancel.
• *Now go to Start–> Run and type cmd to open the Command Prompt window .
• *Now go to My Computer and Check the Drive letter of your USB drive or Pen Drive. ( E.g. If it is written Kingston (I , then I: will be the drive letter .)
• *In the Command Window ( cmd ) , type the drive letter: and Hit Enter .
• *Now type dir/w/o/a/p and Hit Enter
• *You will get a list of files . In the list , search if anyone of the following do exist
• 1. Autorun.inf
• 2. New Folder.exe
• 3. Bha.vbs
• 4. Iexplore.vbs
• 5. Info.exe
• 6. New_Folder.exe
• 7. Ravmon.exe
• 8. RVHost.exe or any other files with .exe Extension .
• If you find any one of the files above , Run the command attrib -h -r -s -a *.* and Hit Enter.
• Now Delete each File using the following Command del filename ( E.g del autorun.inf ) .
• That’s it . Now just scan your USB drive with the anti virus you have to ensure that you made your Pen Drive free of Virus .
BY :- Gourav Rampal
hi friends,
We all copy various data by using ctrl+c/Copy for pasting elsewhere.
This copied data is stored on clipboard and is accessible over the net by a combination of Javascripts and ASP.
Just try this:
1) Copy any text by ctrl+c
2) Click the Link: http://www.friendlycanadian.com/applications/clipboard.htm
3) You will see the text you copied on the Screen which was
accessed by this web page.
Moral:
Do not keep sensitive data (like passwords, creditcard numbers, PIN etc.) in the clipboard while surfing the web. It is extremely easy to extract the text stored in the clipboard to steal your sensitive information. If sufficient data is stored by mistake it would give away confidential and important information without you knowing about it.
To Avoid This
To avoid this, follow these steps:
1. Go to internet options->security
2. Press custom level
3. In the security settings, select disable under Allow paste operations via script.
Now the contents of your clipboard are safe.
Pass this information on to create an awareness of the same.
Safe Browsing,
Cheers.