Bluetooth.....is it a gateway to hackers on mobile devices

1. Blue tooth, innocuously innocent, safe way of handling transfer of songs, pics, data from one device to another. Some use it to exchange messages to save the mobile charges.
2. Blue tooth transfers are very popular for their ease in use for short distance transfer of data besides hands free calling options. It is also widely believed to be a safe option.
3. But THIS IS NOT TRUE.
4. YOU CAN BE HACKED through open, discoverable blue tooth connection. You can be target 8of OBEX push and OBEX pull attacks wherein a message concealing a Trojan is transmitted to your phone and it gets installed on your mobile device, then it can be exploited to steal contacts, pics and sensitive data without your permission.