Blucat Netcat for Bluetooth
Joseph Paul Cohen details blucat: Netcat For Bluetooth JOSEPH PAUL COHEN TCP/IP has tools such as nmap and netcat to explore devices and create socket connections.
Summary
Architecture and Background
Blucat: Netcat For Bluetooth JOSEPH PAUL COHEN TCP/IP has tools such as nmap and netcat to explore devices and create socket connections. Bluetooth has sockets but doesn't have the same tools.
Vulnerability Analysis
Blucat fills this need for the Bluetooth realm. Blucat can be thought of as a: debugging tool for bluetooth applications device exploration tool a component in building other applications Blucat is designed to run on many different platforms (including Raspberry Pi) by abstracting core logic from native code using the Bluecove library to interact with a variety of Bluetooth stacks.
Exploitation and Demonstrations
This talk will go over the objectives, designs, and current results of the project. More information is at .
Remediation and Defensive Strategies
Joseph Paul Cohen is a Ph.D. student at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He has worked for large finance, IT consulting, and startup software companies. He now focuses on computer science research in areas of machine learning and cyber security education. Materials:
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