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To: sammy™ -_- who wrote (617)	7/8/2006 12:36:20 PM
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Bluetooth has the potential to spread viruses in much the same way as real viruses disseminate — through casual public contact. People generally keep their cell phone and laptop connections open, which enables infections to strike from sources as far away as 30 feet. A recent test found 1,400 vulnerable devices at a computer security conference. Some experts say, however, that Bluetooth-related security threats are a bit overstated due to the fact that hacking into a device is difficult. Toshiba has released a fix for a Bluetooth vulnerability in its software, which is used in laptops from Dell, Sony, Asus and others. The denial of service attack causes the Toshiba Bluetooth Host Stack (up to version 4.0.23) to crash. Like other Bluetooth attacks, a mitigating factor is that the attacker must be near the target machine