Bluesnarfing

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Bluesnarfing

To copy address information from a person's Bluetooth phone in the vicinity. The object exchange (OBEX) protocol used in Bluetooth was designed to let users easily send each other business card data without authentication. Bluesnarfers exploit this vulnerability to extract proprietary data from Bluetooth users. See Bluetooth glossary.

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