Detecting Bluetooth Surveillance Systems

Presented at DEF CON 22 (2014), Aug. 9, 2014, 3 p.m. (60 minutes)

Departments of Transportation around the United States have deployed "little white boxes" -- Bluetooth detectors used to monitor traffic speeds and activity. While they're supposedly anonymous, they detect a nearly-unique ID from every car, phone, and PC that passes by. In this presentation, I explore the documentation on these surveillance systems and their capabilities, then build a Bluetooth detector, analyzer, and spoofer with less than $200 of open-source hardware and software. Finally, I turn my own surveillance system on the DOT's and try to detect and map the detectors.

Presenters:

• Grant Bugher - Perimeter Grid
  Grant Bugher has been hacking since the early 90's and working professionally in information security for the last 9 years. He is currently a security architect for a cloud computing provider, and has previously been a program manager and software engineer on a variety of widely-used developer tools and platforms. Grant is a prior speaker at BlackHat USA and a regular DefCon attendee since DefCon 16. Most of his research and work is on cloud compute and storage platforms, application security, and detecting attacks against web-scale applications. Twitter: @fishsupreme Web: http://perimetergrid.com

Links:

• https://defcon.org/html/defcon-22/dc-22-speakers.html#Bugher
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 22/DEF CON 22 slides/DEF CON 22 - Hacking Conference Presentation Grant Bugher - Detecting Bluetooth Surveillance Systems - Slides.mp4
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 22/DEF CON 22 slides/DEF CON 22 - Hacking Conference Presentation Grant Bugher - Detecting Bluetooth Surveillance Systems - Video.mp4
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 22/DEF CON 22 slides/DEF CON 22 - Hacking Conference Presentation Grant Bugher - Detecting Bluetooth Surveillance Systems - Slides.srt (subtitles)
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 22/DEF CON 22 video and slides/DEF CON 22 - Grant Bugher - Detecting Bluetooth Surveillance Systems - Video and Slides.mp4 (Video and Slides)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85uwy0ACJJw

Tags:

• Bluetooth

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• THOTCON 0x6 (2015) / Detecting Bluetooth Surveillance Systems
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