{"id":3967,"date":"2019-08-16T16:22:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3967"},"modified":"2019-08-16T16:24:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:24:58","slug":"bluetooth-knob-attack-is-for-classic-bluetooth-not-bluetooth-le","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bluetooth-knob-attack-is-for-classic-bluetooth-not-bluetooth-le\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth KNOB Attack is for Classic Bluetooth, not Bluetooth LE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a Bluetooth security vulnerability story doing the rounds that, <a href=\"https:\/\/knobattack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"according to the security researchers (opens in a new tab)\">according to the security researchers<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u2026affects basically all devices that &#8220;speak Bluetooth&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t true. The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"vulnerability (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kb.cert.org\/vuls\/id\/918987\/\" target=\"_blank\">vulnerability<\/a> relates to Bluetooth BR\/EDR, so called &#8216;Classic Bluetooth&#8217;, and not Bluetooth LE. It isn&#8217;t found in beacons or other devices communicating via Bluetooth LE. It also isn&#8217;t found in Bluetooth mesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/BluetoothMeshBeacons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Beacons and the Bluetooth Mesh (opens in a new tab)\">Beacons and the Bluetooth Mesh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a Bluetooth security vulnerability story doing the rounds that, according to the security researchers: \u2026affects basically all devices that &#8220;speak Bluetooth&#8221; This isn&#8217;t true. The vulnerability relates to Bluetooth BR\/EDR, so called &#8216;Classic Bluetooth&#8217;, and not Bluetooth LE. It isn&#8217;t found in beacons or other devices communicating via Bluetooth LE. It also isn&#8217;t found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bluetooth-knob-attack-is-for-classic-bluetooth-not-bluetooth-le\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bluetooth KNOB Attack is for Classic Bluetooth, not Bluetooth LE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3969,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions\/3969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}