Bluetooth Phones Could Leak Data Security researchers say manufacturers skeptical of their claim of easy hacking methods. Andrew Brandt, PC World Monday, August 02, 2004 LAS VEGAS--Many of the most popular models of Bluetooth-enabled cell phones can be hacked easily, enabling a malicious hacker to steal phone books, images, calendar information, or virtually anything else stored on the phone, say a pair of security experts. ...Herfurt demonstrated three different ways to attack a phone: He could send unsolicited text messages to the phone's screen, download all the data stored on a phone (or manipulate the data on the phone itself), and turn the phone into a roaming bug by forcing a targeted phone to call another phone. This last attack, which the pair call "BlueBugging," is potentially the most damaging because once the attacker initiates a call on the victim's phone, there's no need to stay within Bluetooth range, typically about 30 feet. The target need only be in a phone service area to be exploited. FULL STORY: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,...d,117203,00.asp Leaning more and more toward the Treo 600............... :roll:
