Different people pointed me at this new Bluetooth Device sold and produced by aircable. They promise that this Bluetooth “Dongle” has up to 30km range. I always thought the theoretically maximum range of Bluetooth is around 3km. Practical approaches extended the range to 1.1 miles, using the BlueSniper Rifle.
Maybe I am wrong, but in my opinion the reason for the theoretical limitation is signal propagation delay. When I have more time I will check the spec.
If you are interested in Bluetooth hacking you might want to join the channel #bluetooth in the freenode ircnet. Not yet very crowded, but i hope that will change soon.
The source code for Bluetooth sniffing under Linux has just been released. It uses the popular FTS4BT hardware. Now you can use your sniffer under Linux, too.
More information on the ‘Open Source BT Sniffer’: Full Disclosure mailing list.
A nice overview about the available Bluetooth security tools and documents: Bluetooth Penetration Testing Framework
BTCrack 1.1 is ready! I named it BTCrack Heisec release, because I released it during the Security Conference of Heisec
BTcrack is a pairing handshake cracker against Bluetooth 1.0 – 2.0 for more information please resort to the Paper by Shaked and Wool and the website listed at the end of this E-mail.
In cooperation with PicoComputing (http://www.picocomputing.com/) we added FPGA support to BTCrack 1.1 and increased the Software speed by 15% reaching 200.00 keys per second on a stock P4-Dual Core 2.0ghz
Version 1.1 :
[+] Added Priority Control
[*] Fixed splash bug
[+] Added FPGA Support
[+] Speed increase (15%)