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Scanning for Bluetooth devices

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Scanning for Bluetooth devices

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- [Tutor] To use Bluetooth with Kali in a virtual environment we need to have a USB Bluetooth adapter loaded, just like we do for Wi-Fi. I've added my Targus USB Bluetooth device to the Kali VM in VirtualBox, which I can see if I click on the USB configuration. The Targus is shown as a Broadcom Bluetooth device. I'll open a terminal window and check my USB devices with the lsusb command. We're cool, we can see a Broadcom Bluetooth device. I'll now see what the Bluetooth interface is with the hciconfig command, and we can see hci0 is available for use with a Bluetooth device address of 00 19 0E 18 8A 0E. I can now look for devices using hcitool. I'll use the minus minus info switch enumerate the device and the minus minus oui switch to tell me what type of device it is. Okay, we found three devices. The first is my iPhone with this Bluetooth device address of 7C 11 BE CB 25 C2, and I can see its name, the chip set…

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