Bluetooth systems affected by wide-ranging security issue

Bluetooth has a bug which can allow hackers to slip in and steal data, even when you're in a secure connection.

The news was unveiled by Lior Neumann and Eli Biham, two cybersecurity researchers from the Israel Institute of Technology who discovered the vulnerability, known as CVE-2018-5383.

To present the problem in layman's terms, the pairing between two devices is weak due to a miscommunication, allowing remote attackers to obtain the encryption key used to secure a connection.