Security Experts Express Concern About ‘Bluesnarfing’ and Here’s How to Prevent It on Your iPhone
It is quite common for iPhone users to not turn off their connections when not using them. When you leave the house It is rare to turn off Wi-Fi or Bluetoothbut it is a practice that can be dangerous. It has been shown that some data can be accessed through a technique known as “bluesnarfing”.
The Spanish National Police has warned of this problem and now it is a well-known hacker, called Jae Bochs, who has wanted to demonstrate how easy it is to carry out an attack using this technique “bluesnarfing” steal user data. Although their demonstration focused on the iPhone, Android smartphones are also at risk.
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Hacker Demonstrates How Dangerous It Is To Enable iPhone Bluetooth
This is not the first time that Bluetooth technology failures have been detected, although this, more than a failure, is a combination of misuse of the technology and user ignorance.
The demonstration of this technology, which allows hacking a Bluetooth device, was carried out at the largest hacker conference in the world, called Def Con In it Jae Bochs. asked participants to disconnect Bluetooth from their iPhoneHowever, within seconds, most participants saw a connection request from something pretending to be an Apple TV.
If you accept this request, the hacker could steal some of your credentials, which could then gain access to your accounts and much of your data. But, How is this possible if users had disabled Bluetooth?
How to Completely Turn Off iPhone Bluetooth
The main problem with this technique is not only that many users leave the iPhone’s Bluetooth on all day, it’s also that Most people don’t know how to turn it off and turn it off completely. And I’m sure most of you don’t know this either.
If I asked you to turn off the Bluetooth on your iPhone, surely you would slide up the control center and tap the Bluetooth icon. But this doesn’t completely disable the connection, it just disconnects the iPhone from known devices until tomorrow. The same thing happens with Wi-Fi.
HAS To completely turn off Bluetooth on your iPhone, you need to go to Settings > Bluetooth and turn off the switch.do not use the Control Center button. This way, Bluetooth is completely disabled and it would not be possible to use this so-called technique “bluesnarfing”.
Of course, You should also not accept connection requests from strangers on your iPhone. Even if you have an Apple TV, AirPods, or iPad, a login will only be requested during setup, so if you see notifications like this, dismiss them immediately to resolve the issues.
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