Tag: Bluetooth

This blog post demonstrates how a modern variant of an hardware attack found in the 2000's allowed the extraction of a €12 smartwatch's firmware using only cheap and robust hardware. Damien and Thomas (introduced later in this post) gave a talk on this subject at this year's leHACK edition in Paris.

The internship season is back at Quarkslab! Our internship positions cover a wide range of topics and expertise, and aim at tackling new challenges in various fields.

A blog post about the security implemented in the August Smart Lock, with special focus on the Bluetooth Low Energy capabilities.

Earlier this year, on March 2018, we published a blog post detailing 2 vulnerabilities in the Android Bluetooth stack, which were independently discovered by Quarkslab, but were fixed in the March 2018 Android Security Bulletin while we were in the process of reporting them to Google.

The March 2018 Android Security Bulletin includes fixes for 10 vulnerabilities in its Bluetooth stack, some of which were also independently discovered by Quarkslab, but were fixed while we were in the process of reporting them to Google (spoiler alert: we have reported a few more new Bluetooth vulnerabilities to the Android team — we'll disclose the details after they get fixed). This blogpost shows technical details for a couple of these fixed bugs, which can be triggered remotely and without any user interaction, as well as proof-of-concept code for them.