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What are Location Attacks?
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What are Location Attacks?
Solution
Location attacks are centered around locating Bluetooth devices and enumerating device information and potentially obtaining information off the device.

Bluetooth has a mode which allows the discovery of Bluetooth devices, if not secured it is possible to track devices and enumerate information off a device such as device type, services supported, in some cases retrieve information off the device such as Phone contacts, or push information to a device.

It is also possible if a device is 'Hidden' to enumerate information from the device however it would require a by Bluetooth address search to attempt to locate the device initially.

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Category Bluetooth Security
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