Bluejacking - harmless prank
Bluejacking is a type of prank played with Bluetooth devices which takes advantage of a loophole in bluetooth technology to send unsolicited messages to other nearby Bluetooth devices whose bluetooth is on. Bluejacking term did not come from Bluetooth and hijacking. In this trick, bluejacker is not hijacking anything.Bluejacking was first done by Malaysian IT consultant.He dericed Bluejacking from Bluetooth and ajack. Ajack was his username on Esato, a Sony Ericsson fan online forum.
Bluetooth is a wireless transmission technology which has slow data transfer speed and has limited ranges. It reaches around 10 metres or 32.8 ft on mobile phones, PDAs, and 100 metres (328 ft) in laptops.
In Bluejacking, a bluetooth enabled device sends a vCard to another bluetooth enabled device via the OBEX protocol. Here vCard typically contains a message in the name field (i.e. for bluedating or bluechat). vCard is a special file format standard for electronic business cards.
Usually a bluejacker can only send a text message with this flaw. But modern phone allows users to send images or sounds as well.
There are many tools developed for Blujacking. Most of the tools were developed by individual developers with specific functions.
NOTE: Bluejacking is harmless and mainly used for advertising on other devices. But people who do not know about this think that their phone is infected or malfunction. Blujacker can only send a message or sound and image in modern phones. Bluejacker will not be able to take over your phone or steal your personal information.
Bluejacking tools:
http://www.bluejackq.com/freejack.jar
Bluetooth is a wireless transmission technology which has slow data transfer speed and has limited ranges. It reaches around 10 metres or 32.8 ft on mobile phones, PDAs, and 100 metres (328 ft) in laptops.
In Bluejacking, a bluetooth enabled device sends a vCard to another bluetooth enabled device via the OBEX protocol. Here vCard typically contains a message in the name field (i.e. for bluedating or bluechat). vCard is a special file format standard for electronic business cards.
Usually a bluejacker can only send a text message with this flaw. But modern phone allows users to send images or sounds as well.
There are many tools developed for Blujacking. Most of the tools were developed by individual developers with specific functions.
NOTE: Bluejacking is harmless and mainly used for advertising on other devices. But people who do not know about this think that their phone is infected or malfunction. Blujacker can only send a message or sound and image in modern phones. Bluejacker will not be able to take over your phone or steal your personal information.
Bluejacking tools:
http://www.bluejackq.com/freejack.jar
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