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An attack on Bluetooth 4, or Bluetooth Low Energy (LE), exposes millions of Bluetooth-enabled devices, to hijacking at the hands of malevolant actors. This is the conclusion of a research paper called GATTacking Bluetooth Smart Devices by SecuRing security researcher Slawomir Jasek. Because of its low-energy consumption, Bluetooth LE has become one of the favorite methods of having an IoT device talk to its paired device, usually a smartphone or tablet, running a specially built application. Attack allows crooks to get a MitM position in Bluetooth LE connections At the Black Hat security conference that took place last week, Jasek has presented a new attack on the Bluetooth LE protocol that allows an attacker to spoof some of its lower levels of communications, that ocurr before a device has been authen... ...