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A Low Energy Profile: Analysing Characteristic Security on BLE Peripherals

Sivakumaran, Pallavi, Blasco Alis, Jorge·2018·Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy
DOI 10.1145/3176258.3176945
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Bluetooth Low Energy is a ubiquitous technology, with applications in the fitness, healthcare and smart home sectors, to name but a few. In this paper, we present an open-source Profiler for classifying the protection level of data residing on a BLE device. Preliminary results obtained by executing the tool against several devices show that some BLE devices allow unauthenticated reads and writes from third party devices. This could expose them to a number of attacks and compromise the privacy, or even the physical safety, of the device owner.

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Authors
Sivakumaran, P., & Blasco Alis, J.
Affiliations
  • Royal Holloway University of London (GB)
  • Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom
ORCID
Sivakumaran, Pallavi
Venue
Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy
Publisher
ACM
Published
2018-03-13
Pages
152-154
DOI
10.1145/3176258.3176945
OpenAlex
W2791080348
Cited by
11
References
0
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2
FWCI
1.86
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Background (vor)
Locations
ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY) (publishedVersion)
Funders
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P009301/1)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Hardware and Architecture › Security and Verification in Computing
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
Keywords
Bluetooth Low Energy, profiling tools, privacy attacks, physical security, open source tools, smart home devices

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Sivakumaran, P., & Blasco Alis, J. (2018). A Low Energy Profile: Analysing Characteristic Security on BLE Peripherals. Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy. https://doi.org/10.1145/3176258.3176945