I have heard of Ubertooth for a while now and it seems it use to attack bluetooth devices keep growing. Once recent attack described HERE can leverage the Ubertooth sniffing capability to crack the encryption algorithm used by the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standard. BLE is also referred to as Bluetooth Smart.

Sure, BLE/Bluetooth Smart is different from Bluetooth, but it issupported by most recent mobile devices (i.e.: the latest iPads and iPhone as well as some Android devices), and will be increasingly used in “smart” appliances, from toothbrushes to fridge if you believe this ARTICLE.

Nonetheless, if you were not convinced before that Ubertooth was a very useful piece of kit, you should reconsider it. Bluetooth is a technology that hasn’t seen much successful attacks until now, mainly because the attack vectors were limited to expensive kit or dark magic knowledge. This, may be about to change and it is as much a good think for driving better security, as it is worrying for the integrity of all our accessories and smart devices we use every day.