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Serious Bluetooth security flaw officially acknowledged; now patched by Apple

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<p>A serious Bluetooth <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/security/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">security[/url] flaw has been acknowledged by Bluetooth SIG, the official body in charge of standards for the wireless communications technology. It is sufficiently dangerous that the official Bluetooth specification has been changed.</p>
<p>The vulnerability would make it far easier for an attacker to brute-force a pairing with your devices…</p>
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