Bluesnarfing is one type of blue-tooth hacking. While it is similar to the bluejacking and bluebugging. It was discovered by Marcel Holtmann in october 2003.

Bluesnarfing is unauthorized access of information or data from wireless device through blue-tooth technology. Connection is often between the desktop’s, LAP’s ,cellphones , PDA’s . Blue-tooth is very high speed but a short range wireless technology,in which exchanging of information between cellphones, deskstop’s. The most know device in which the blue-tooth is already installed is cellphones .

In this the attacker access the calendar, contact list and e-mail and text messages without leaving any evidence of the act. Other device is Laptop’s and computers ,they are having less frequency and more complex system than cellphones . The time required is attacking this device takes is more.

Bluesnarfing

In bluesnarfing the exchange of Information takes place by guessing the MAC address. However this is difficult task for attacker ,the Bluetooth uses a 48-bit unique MAC Address. There are over 280 trillion possible addresses to guess .After guessing ,the attacker can synchronize the device which is know as pairing . Then at least the information is exchanged between the devices.

Bluesnarfing is considered as the illegal in many countries.To avoid bluesnarfing always switch off the blue tooth device to non-discoverable mode . Never pair the device with the unknown or public places.

Bluejacking is one of the type of Blue-tooth hacking. Bluejacking was first carried by the Malaysian IT consultant. In simple words Bluejacking means tempoarly hijacking someones device. Bluejacking allow the user to send business cards anonymously using Bluetooth wireless technology.

Bluejacking is carried only to the Bluetooth enable device that is cell phones, PDA’s , laptop’s . Bluejacking can take place just at a range of 10 meters. To start with the process of bluejacking ,the hacker search for device whose Bluetooth device is on.

Bluejacking

Then the hacker enables a wireless communication between the device it is known as pairing. The hacker send out some business card or text message to user to establish the connection . The Bluejacker often look for a reaction from the user. They then send another, more personal message to that device. Once again, in order to carry out a bluejacking. All this is carried at the bluetooth enabled device via the OBEX protocol.
Bluejacker some make an misuse the device ,they can send messages orelse hack your contact list . In Bluejacking it does involve any alteration or indication that data is transferred from one device to another device.

In order to avoid the bluejacker disable the Bluetooth device when it is not needed or not in use or else reject the unexpected pairing request.

This article is to inform the public about the bluejacking. And how to protect your device from it . Don’t forget to make comments or questions here.

Bluebugging is also one form of Bluetooth hacking .It was first discovered German researcher Martin Herfurt . He got the motivation from the Bluesnarf attack.

Bluebugging is very much different from the bluesnarfing. In bluebugging allows an individuals to access the mobile phone commands using Bluetooth wireless technology without knowing the phone’s user .The hacker can access the phone memory and connect internet without knowing the user . Hacker can also initiate phone calls, send and read SMS, listen the phone conversion. But here the hacker must be at range of 10 meters while in bluesnarf it is upto 100 meters.

Bluebugging

Initially bluebugging was carried using the laptops. But as the technology as boomed it can be carried on powerful PDA’s and mobile devices. Futher development of bluebugging tools the hacker can also take the control of victim’s phone. The hacker not only make call’s ,send MSG’s essentially do anything to the cell phone.

In bluebugging ,the hacker search for the establishment of connection i.e it searches for switch on bluetooth cell phone . Once the connection is established by pairing of device . It can do anything with the device.

Bluebugging cannot harm all the cell phones ,due to less range. But this can be avoided by switching OFF the Bluetooth to non discoverable mode.
This article is to inform the people about consequences of bluebugging. And also include how to protect from it.