Secure Bluetooth for Trusted m-Commerce

Bluetooth is a wireless short-range communication technology, intended to replace the wires and cables connecting portable or fixed electronic devices. Created by telecom vendor Ericsson in 1994, from the first Bluetooth enabled de-vice in 1999, to 2008 more than 2 billion devices were using Bluetooth. In 2010 have been sold 906 million mobile phones Bluetooth enabled, and in 2011 there were more than 40 million Bluetooth enabled health and medical devices on the market. Still in 2011, one third of all new vehicles produced worldwide included Bluetooth technology. This pa-per will give first an overview on the general characteristics of Bluetooth technology today. It will go then deeper in the analysis of Bluetooth stack’s layers and the security features offered by the specifications. In the last part of the paper known vulnerabilities and potential threats will be presented, as well as a comprehensive list of known attacks. The pa-per concludes with the proposal of a design for Secure Architecture for Bluetooth-Enhanced Mobile “Smart” Commerce Environments.JRC.G.7-Digital Citizen Securit