IEEE Communications Society Denver Chapter: August Meeting Announcement
COMSOC/SIGPROC Technical Presentation Series
Due to site security policies, the normal RSVP procedure has changed somewhat. Please use the following procedures if you plan to attend the meeting.
US Citizens, Resident Aliens, and Green Card holders: If you plan to attend, please RSVP by 12 pm (noon) on Wednesday, August 5th by sending a quick email to Matt Weiss at weissmg@yahoo.com. On the day of the meeting, bring a state-issued photo ID and sign in at the Visitor's Center (click here for a map). From there, you will be given a visitor's badge, parking pass, and parking directions.
Foreign Nationals: If you plan to attend, please email Anna Paulson (apaulson@ieee.org) before5 pm on Tuesday, August 4th. She will send you a foreign national visitor's request. Please complete the form a return it to Anna Paulson before5 pm on Wednesday, August 5th. On the day of the meeting, bring your passport and sign in at the Visitor's Center (click here for a map). From there, you will be given a visitor's badge, parking pass, and parking directions.
There will be a sign-in sheet just inside the building's main entrance. After signing in, you will be directed to the meeting location. The main door will be closed at 6:30 pm. If you are going to be late, have the Visitor's Center notify Anna Paulson and she will let you in.
Date : Thursday, August 6th, 2009 6:00-6:30 pm - Networking and refreshments 6:30-8:00 pm - Presentation
Speaker:Michael Ossmann, ITS/NTIA Title: Building an All-Channel Bluetooth Monitor Cost : There is no cost to attend.
Location: Department of Commerce - Boulder Labs 325 Broadway Building 1, Room 1107 Boulder, CO
Parking : Free parking around Building 1 is available to any visitor (click here for a map).
Still have questions? Contact Matt Weiss at weissmg@yahoo.com for more information.
Presentation Abstract: Monitoring Bluetooth is hard. Security researchers accustomed to 802.11 have been spoiled by ubiquitous, inexpensive hardware capable of monitor mode, but similar tools are not available for Bluetooth. Off-the-shelf Bluetooth adapters are capable of monitoring only by actively joining a network, and they are unable to passively collect the information required in order to join. Efforts to build custom monitoring systems to date have been limited by Bluetooth's frequency hopping through 79 channels, each 1 MHz wide.
We will review the options available today for passive Bluetooth monitoring with an emphasis on software radio techniques. Although single channel monitoring with software radio has been demonstrated before, we will show how to extend the technique to all 79 channels and how to predict the target network's pseudo-random hopping sequence using passively collected information.
Speaker Bio: Michael Ossmann is a wireless security researcher for the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences at the U.S. Department of Commerce Boulder Laboratories in Colorado. He currently develops software radio tools for security research both as a hobby and for his day job.
