Taming the blue beast: A survey of bluetooth based threats

IEEE Security and Privacy

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 20-27

  Dunning, John Paol ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bluetooth; Hacking; Mobile computing; Security taxonomy; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

BLUETOOTH-ENABLED DEVICES; HACKING; SAMSUNG; SECURITY TAXONOMY; SMART PHONES; THREAT MITIGATION; TOYOTA PRIUS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

COMPUTER CRIME; MOBILE COMPUTING; PERSONAL COMPUTING; TAXONOMIES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BLUETOOTH;

EID: 77950684579     PISSN: 15407993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2010.3     Document Type: Article

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