News Pickpockets turn to technology

Missed this over at the Beeb yesterday, so appologies if you've already read it. But if you own either a SonyEricsson T68i or T610, or a Nokia 6310 or 7650 phone, read on:

potential loophole in security for Bluetooth phones, which could see strangers hacking into your address books, has been uncovered.
We all know that the type of mobile phone that you own says a lot about you. In some circles having anything but the latest gadget can send all the wrong signals to your peers.

But if you are not careful your handset could be revealing much more about you than you would like, such as your entire address book. And you may know nothing about it.

Security experts are warning that the Bluetooth short-range radio technology can leave people vulnerable to the hi-tech equivalent of pickpockets.

In laboratory tests researchers have managed to steal information including address books and images from handsets by exploiting shortcomings in Bluetooth security.

Full story here

 

Woohoo! Someone can get my random pictures and my mates telephone numbers... hardly loosing anything valuable is it.

Maybe if/when you can pay for things using your mobile ill be worried. Im not stupid enough to walk around with BT turned on all the time anyway.

 

I think the point is that the more recent phones have the ability to store street addresses as well as phone numbers, so they can hack those. They then know where you live. What time you're not gonna be there (say, on the way to work). La de da.