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Are Some Bluetooth Devices Actually Toothless? TSYS School professors Yesem Peker and Alfredo Perez teamed with their former student Gabriel Bello to investigate the security features available in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standards, particularly as they relate to wearable devices, such the Fitbit hear rate wristband and the Polar heart rate chest wearable, and a BLE keyboard.   Their investigation of the standards for short-distance wireless communication that are implemented in these three popular devices is published in a 2022 issue of Sensors .   Their approach, which uses both the ComProbe Bluetooth Protocol Analyzer and the ComProbe software to capture the BLE traffic of these three devices, reveals that even though the standards provide security mechanisms, because the Bluetooth Special Interest Group does not require that manufacturers fully comply with the standards, some manufacturers fail to implement proper security mechanisms.   According to Peker, “thi...

Computing during Crises Turner College assistant professor of management information systems Yaojie Li teamed with scholars from around the globe to publish two studies in the 2021 volume of IEEE Engineering Management Review , each of which deals with information technology in the era of COVID-19.   In an investigation of how the COVID-19 epidemic affects the U.S. information technology (IT) labor market and, accordingly, how organizations choose to hire IT employees in the current situation, Li teamed with Xuan Wang of the University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley, Thomas Stafford of Louisiana Tech University, and Daqi Xin of Nankai University in China.   This group of researchers compiled a dataset of 57,847 IT job postings from a large online employment website during the second half of 2020 in order to examine the relationships between pandemic severity and work arrangements (remote versus on-site), work schedules (part-time versus full time), and organizational sectors ...