A Preliminary Investigation of Worm Infections in a Bluetooth Environment Export

@inproceedings{su:bluetooth, abstract = {Over the past year, there have been several reports of malicious code exploiting vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth protocol. While the research community has started to investigate a diverse set of Bluetooth security issues, little is known about the feasibility and the propagation dynamics of a worm in a Bluetooth environment. This paper is an initial attempt to remedy this situation. We start by showing that the Bluetooth protocol design and implementation is large and complex. We gather traces and we use controlled experiments to investigate whether a large-scale Bluetooth worm outbreak is viable today. Our data shows that starting a Bluetooth worm infection is easy, once a vulnerability is discovered. Finally, we use trace-drive simulations to examine the propagation dynamics of Bluetooth worms. We find that Bluetooth worms can infect a large population of vulnerable devices relatively quickly, in just a few days.}, address = {Alexandria, VA, USA}, author = {Su, J. and Chan, K. K. and Miklas, A. G. and Po, K. and Akhavan, A. and Saroiu, S. and Lara, E. D. and Goel, A.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM)}, citeulike-article-id = {2820727}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~stefan/publications/worm/2006/bt.pdf}, keywords = {crawdad, measurement, mit\_reality, toronto\_bluetooth, wireless}, month = {November}, posted-at = {2008-05-21 17:27:09}, priority = {2}, title = {A Preliminary Investigation of Worm Infections in a Bluetooth Environment}, url = {http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~stefan/publications/worm/2006/bt.pdf}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - su:bluetooth L3 - citeulike-article-id:2820727 N2 - Over the past year, there have been several reports of malicious code exploiting vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth protocol. While the research community has started to investigate a diverse set of Bluetooth security issues, little is known about the feasibility and the propagation dynamics of a worm in a Bluetooth environment. This paper is an initial attempt to remedy this situation. We start by showing that the Bluetooth protocol design and implementation is large and complex. We gather traces and we use controlled experiments to investigate whether a large-scale Bluetooth worm outbreak is viable today. Our data shows that starting a Bluetooth worm infection is easy, once a vulnerability is discovered. Finally, we use trace-drive simulations to examine the propagation dynamics of Bluetooth worms. We find that Bluetooth worms can infect a large population of vulnerable devices relatively quickly, in just a few days. AD - Alexandria, VA, USA TI - A Preliminary Investigation of Worm Infections in a Bluetooth Environment T2 - Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM) KW - crawdad KW - measurement KW - mit_reality KW - toronto_bluetooth KW - wireless AU - Su, J AU - Chan, KK AU - Miklas, AG AU - Po, K AU - Akhavan, A AU - Saroiu, S AU - Lara, ED AU - Goel, A PY - 2006/November// UR - http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~stefan/publications/worm/2006/bt.pdf ER -