(SlashGear) J.C. Torres - Before two devices can communicate via Bluetooth, they have to undergo a pairing process that requires a secret key to encrypt the communication. But what if that key was not so secret? Cybersecurity researchers Prof. Eli Biham and graduate student Lior Neumann from the Technion in Israel were able to force devices to use a known encryption key. This means that an attacker would be able to see any data that flows between two compromised devices including anything you type on a Bluetooth keyboard, including passwords. The good news is that the parties involved have been given the chance to patch their software.
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