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Meaning of "bluesnarfing" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BLUESNARFING

From Blue(tooth) + snarf.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BLUESNARFING

bluesnarfing  [ˈbluːˌsnɑːfɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLUESNARFING

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Bluesnarfing is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BLUESNARFING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bluesnarfing

Bluesnarfing is the unauthorized access of information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection, often between phones, desktops, laptops, and PDAs. This allows access to a calendar, contact list, emails and text messages, and on some phones, users can copy pictures and private videos. Both Bluesnarfing and Bluejacking exploit others' Bluetooth connections without their knowledge. While Bluejacking is essentially harmless as it only transmits data to the target device, Bluesnarfing is the theft of information from the target device. Current mobile software generally must allow a connection using a temporary state initiated by the user in order to be 'paired' with another device to copy content. There seem to have been, in the past, available reports of phones being Bluesnarfed without pairing being explicitly allowed. After the release of this vulnerability, vendors of mobile phone patched their Bluetooth implementations and, at the time of writing, no current phone models are vulnerable to this attack.

Definition of bluesnarfing in the English dictionary

The definition of bluesnarfing in the dictionary is the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BLUESNARFING


astroturfing
ˈæstrəʊˌtɜːfɪŋ
bodysurfing
ˈbɒdɪˌsɜːfɪŋ
briefing
ˈbriːfɪŋ
channel-surfing
ˈtʃænəlsɜːfɪŋ
couchsurfing
ˈkaʊtʃˌsɜːfɪŋ
debriefing
ˌdiːˈbriːfɪŋ
kitesurfing
ˈkaɪtˌsɜːfɪŋ
laughing
ˈlɑːfɪŋ
morphing
ˈmɔːfɪŋ
overstaffing
ˌəʊvəˈstɑːfɪŋ
roofing
ˈruːfɪŋ
rustproofing
ˈrʌstˌpruːfɪŋ
smurfing
ˈsmɜːfɪŋ
soundproofing
ˈsaʊndpruːfɪŋ
staffing
ˈstɑːfɪŋ
strafing
ˈstrɑːfɪŋ
surfing
ˈsɜːfɪŋ
understaffing
ˌʌndəˈstɑːfɪŋ
waterproofing
ˈwɔːtəpruːfɪŋ
windsurfing
ˈwɪndˌsɜːfɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLUESNARFING

bluenose
bluepoint
blueprint
bluer
blues
blues band
blues guitar
blueshift
bluesman
bluesmen
bluest
bluestem
bluestocking
bluestone
bluesy
bluet
bluethroat
bluetick
bluetit
bluetongue

WORDS THAT END LIKE BLUESNARFING

air surfing
ballot-box stuffing
buffing
card surfing
crowd surfing
effing
ego surfing
golfing
huffing
in the offing
netsurfing
perfing
safe surfing
shoulder surfing
skysurfing
sniffing
snowsurfing
sofa surfing
spoofing
stuffing

Synonyms and antonyms of bluesnarfing in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «bluesnarfing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLUESNARFING

Find out the translation of bluesnarfing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bluesnarfing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bluesnarfing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

bluesnarfing
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bluesnarfing
570 millions of speakers

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bluesnarfing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

bluesnarfing
380 millions of speakers
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bluesnarfing
280 millions of speakers

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Bluesnarfing
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Bluesnarfing
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bluesnarfing
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Bluesnarfing
220 millions of speakers

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Bluesnarfing
190 millions of speakers

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Bluesnarfing
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

bluesnarfing
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

bluesnarfing
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bluesnarfing
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

bluesnarfing
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ப்ளூஸ்னார்பிங்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ब्ल्यूसेनर्फिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bluesnarfing
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Bluesnarfing
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bluesnarfing
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Bluesnarfing
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bluesnarfing
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Bluesnarfing
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

bluesnarfing
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Bluesnarfing
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bluesnarfing
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bluesnarfing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BLUESNARFING»

The term «bluesnarfing» is used very little and occupies the 177.524 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BLUESNARFING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bluesnarfing

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLUESNARFING»

Discover the use of bluesnarfing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bluesnarfing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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CompTIA Security+ Review Guide: SY0-201
Bluesnarfing is the unauthorized accessing of data via a Bluetooth connection. Often the term blue jacking is mistakenly used to describe or label the activity of bluesnarfing. Successful bluesnarfing attacks against PDAs, cell phones, and ...
James M. Stewart, 2011
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Information Security Management Handbook, Sixth Edition
Although certain security features are built into the Bluetooth standard, it brings certain serious risks and threats that one must consider mitigating. Bluejacking, bluesnarfing, and bluebugging are three of the most common and well-known ...
Harold F. Tipton, Micki Krause, 2009
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Hacking For Beginners: a beginners guide to learn ethical ...
(F Bluesnarfing iiIue-Siiarf Bluesnarfing is the theft of information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection, often between phones, desktops, laptops, and PDAs. This allows access to a calendar, contact list, emails and text ...
Manthan M Desai, 2010
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New Perspectives on the Internet: Comprehensive
A more serious security problem of Bluetooth-enabled devices, bluesnarfing, occurs when a hacker with special software is able to detect the signal from a Bluetooth device and gain access to its data without the owner's knowledge.
Gary Schneider, Jessica Evans, 2008
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Security+ Guide to Network Security Fundamentals
Bluesnarfing is an attack that accesses unauthorized information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection, often between cell phones and laptop computers. In a bluesnarfing attack, the attacker copies e-mails, calendars, contact ...
Mark Ciampa, 2011
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Information Security: A Manager's Guide to Thwarting Data ...
When you use a wireless-enabled device in a crowded public place, you have the risk of having your data stolen by hackers. BLUETOOTH—BLUESNARFING —BLUEJACKING Bluetooth is a wireless technology that is generally associated  ...
Philip Alexander, 2008
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CISSP For Dummies
With Bluetooth technology becoming wildly popular, several new attack methods have evolved, including bluejacking (sending anonymous, unsolicited messages to Bluetooth-enabled devices) and bluesnarfing (stealing personal data, such ...
Lawrence C. Miller, Peter Gregory, 2012
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Hacker Techniques, Tools, and Incident Handling
Bluejacking, Bluesnarfing, and Bluebugging are attacks caused by devices being discoverable. Bluejacking involves a Bluetooth user transmitting a business card, a form of text message, to another Bluetooth user. A recipient who doesn't ...
Sean-Philip Oriyano, President Michael Gregg, 2013
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Visualization for Computer Security: 5th International ...
The BlueSnarfing scenario, en- tropies Fig. 9. BlueSnarfing, conditional entropies introduce unusual statistical effects in any pair of protocol features. It is these effects that our visualization aims to make conspicuous. Scalability is a significant  ...
John R. Goodall, Gregory Conti, Kwan-Liu Ma, 2008
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Networked Digital Technologies, Part I: Second International ...
Bluejacking was originated with a user named ajack, who developed first Bluejacking software called SMan for the Symbian operating system of smart phones. Bluesnarfing attack type is concerning the theft of information such as copying en- ...
Filip Zavoral, Jakub Yaghob, Pit Pichappan, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLUESNARFING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bluesnarfing is used in the context of the following news items.
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How criminals can 'suck information' out of smartphones using …
This process is sometimes called 'bluejacking' or, more properly, 'bluesnarfing'. Now, a Channel 5 experiment has shown just how simple it is ... «Daily Mail, Jan 15»
2
Bluetooth 4.2 aims to shield your smartphone from prying beacons
That ubiquity has occasionally been a vulnerability, however, and the term "bluesnarfing," the act of covertly accessing a phone or other device ... «Mashable, Dec 14»
3
'Pretty Little Liars' Season 5, Episode 10: 'A Dark Ali'
In front of City Hall, Mona is waiting in her car and bluesnarfing. Out of nowhere, Hanna enters Mona's car and grills her with questions. «Neon Tommy, Aug 14»
4
Are Smart Locks Secure Or Just Dumb ?
So more common Bluetooth-based attacks like Bluejacking, Bluesnarfing and Bluebugging are a non-issue. Bluetooth SMART was “built from ... «Gizmodo Australia, Jun 13»
5
Meet Biometric Associates, LP: BlackBerry Live
Not too many people are familiar with the terms bluejacking, bluesnarfing, or bluebugging. Having relatives and friends that are in the military I ... «BerryReview, May 13»
6
The 10 Dumbest Risks You Can Take With a Smartphone
Bluejacking, Bluesnarfing, Bluebugging. These are all words that describe a hacker exploiting the open Bluetooth connection on your phone. «Huffington Post, Jan 13»
7
Tracking devices help you find lost items
They call this bluesnarfing when criminals "listen in" on your bluetooth broadcasts. HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF: It's okay if you decide to ... «WBTV, Jan 13»
8
Cybercrime-fest targets mobile devices
Another possible attack, known as bluesnarfing, enables attackers to gain access to contact data by exploiting a software flaw in a ... «Network World, Sep 12»
9
Staying safe online: How to keep your business free from digital theft
Turn off Bluetooth in public places to avoid unauthorised access to your mobile device through 'Bluesnarfing,' or sending you unsolicited ... «Dynamic Business, Mar 12»
10
The Computer Attacks You've Never Heard Of
BlueBugging: A craze originally jumpstarted by a Malaysian IT Professional, bluebugging (not to be confused with bluesnarfing) allows a more ... «Lifehacker Australia, Feb 11»

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