With all these developments on technology, we are now able to access information through faster ways and means, not to mention communicate with each other in a more affordable manner. But oftentimes, these advances come bundled with a set of problems that it becomes hard to provide a formidable solution at the time it starts to do some serious damage. But we don't usually allow such problems to stop us from taking advantage of the convenience, speed, efficiency, and affordability such technologies provide us with. For instance, fast internet connections have provided us with a more affordable means of telephony through VoIP, and the security flaws we have yet to fix does not stop the businessmen of the world to tap this technology for their communication purposes.
But it's such a good thing we have these people who test out the security flaws of each technological innovation, especially when it comes to
digital information access. One such man is Ollie Whitehouse, a researcher on security that involves information technology. He has developed a program called Red Fang specifically for this purpose.
The application, which he has given the name Red Fang, allows a person equipped with minor hacking skills to gain total access to the information on handheld computers. This is done through the handheld computer's
bluetooth connectivity feature, a usual feature on most handheld devices. It first identifies the handheld gizmos that has bluetooth connectivity features within a certain range, and then the hacker could also identify which handheld computer has minimal security measures against hacker attack done through its bluetooth port. He stated that he has created this application so as to make it known to most people how improperly configuring a handheld computer's bluetooth security system could provide you with hacker troubles.
