There is a
reported and potentially dangerous hole that was found in the Bluetooth stack for WM 5.0 and WM 6.0.. It is not yet been found to be in WM 6.1...
The hole is:
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Apparently the weakness is in the bluetooth FTP service, which allows another authorized and paired bluetooth device to browse specific specified directories on your Windows Mobile phone. This can be very useful for copying files to and from your smartphone from your desktop for example wirelessly.
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and the advice given to not have this hole exploited on your phone is:
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Currently there no known patch, and Alberto has not tested Windows Mobile 6.1 to see if its vulnerable yet, but given the similarities of the versions this is quite likely. The only mitigating factor for now is that only authorized and paired devices are allowed to use the Bluetooth FTP service at the moment, and Alberto advises Windows Mobile users not accept pairing prompts from strangers.
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