Tag: Bluetooth
New ‘BLESA’ Bluetooth Vulnerability Affects Billions of Devices: Researchers
Cyber-security researches at Purdue University have discovered a critical vulnerability in the Bluetooth software stack. Called 'BLESA', or Bluetooth Low Energy Spoofing Attack, the...
‘BLURtooth’ Exploit Lets Attackers Hack Into Bluetooth Devices
Cyber-security researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Purdue University have identified key security vulnerabilities in certain Bluetooth implementations that leave...
Hackers Can Now Send Malware over Bluetooth
Researchers at ERNW Insulator, a German security firm have found a crucial vulnerability that lets attackers run malicious code on some Android devices. The...
Bluetooth SIG Announces LC3 Codec, Support for Hearing Aids, and Multi-Stream Audio
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is finally stepping up the capabilities of Bluetooth technology. A few days back at CES 2020, they announced...
Android 11 May Let You Listen to Bluetooth Audio With Airplane Mode On
Android 10 has not even been rolled out to most flagship smartphones yet, but rumors about the next major version of the software have...
Major Bluetooth Security Flaw Leaves Millions Vulnerable to Hackers
Cyber-security researchers have detailed a critical Bluetooth vulnerability called KNOB (Key Negotiation Of Bluetooth) that they say can potentially allow hackers to intercept and...
Android Pie Will Remember Set Volume For Each Bluetooth Device
The release of Android 9 Pie has brought with it a number of new features that, although incremental in nature, are expected to make...
Google Planning to Release New Chromecast With Bluetooth Enabled
Google is apparently preparing to release a Bluetooth version of its 2nd-gen Chromecast streaming device. According to some FCC documentation discovered recently, the company...
Turn Any Car into an Alexa-Powered Smart Car with Anker Roav Viva Car Charger
While Android Auto and Apple's CarPlay are slowly making their way into the automobile industry, the biggest constraint with these technologies is that mostly,...
How to Get Bluetooth Device Battery Level on Android
The world is shifting towards wireless technologies. Be it listening to audio, or transferring content, almost everything can be done wirelessly. The two most...
What is Bluetooth 5? Everything You Need to Know
The Bluetooth technology is more than two decades old and is still the dominant wireless tech standard for transferring data over short distances. It...
How to Fix Mac Bluetooth Problems
There have always been issues with the Bluetooth connectivity (or Bluetooth not working at all) on macOS. While this issue has been largely resolved in...