{"id":1495,"date":"2025-02-07T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2025-04-22T20:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:19:26","slug":"security-bite-how-hackers-can-takeover-your-mac-using-bluetooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/security-bite-how-hackers-can-takeover-your-mac-using-bluetooth\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Bite: How hackers can takeover your Mac using Bluetooth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Security-Bite-Matrix-Hack.png\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/mosyle.net\/87PQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Mosyle,\u00a0the only Apple Unified Platform<\/strong>.<\/a> <em>Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-the-art Apple-specific security solutions for fully automated Hardening &amp; Compliance, Next Generation EDR, AI-powered Zero Trust, and exclusive Privilege Management with the most powerful and modern Apple MDM on the market. The result is a totally automated Apple Unified Platform currently trusted by over 45,000 organizations to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. <\/em><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mosyle.net\/87PQ\">Request your EXTENDED TRIAL<\/a><\/em><\/strong><em> today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p>In a Bluetooth Impersonation Attack (or BIAS), hackers can exploit weaknesses in the Bluetooth protocol to impersonate a trusted device. \u201cBOSE QC Headphones\u201d in the Bluetooth menu could be a low-orbiting ion canon waiting for an end-user to connect to it before unleashing all sorts of damage.<\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/security-bite\/\">Security Bite<\/a>, I will show you how hackers can use<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/flipper-zero\/\"> Flipper Zero<\/a> to send sneaky keystrokes to a Mac by connecting it to a fake Bluetooth device. This isn\u2019t going to be a complete tutorial since there are tons of guides out there already. Instead, I want to point out how easy it is to pull this off and maybe make you a bit more paranoid.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"flipper-zero,mac,security,security-bite\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"989281\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/02\/07\/security-bite-how-hackers-can-takeover-your-mac-using-bluetooth\/#more-989281\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle,\u00a0the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.susanhenryphotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}