InfoSec News Nuggets 10/01/2024

Senate bill pushes cyber mandates for medical industry in wake of Change Healthcare debacle Hospitals and other healthcare businesses would be required to adopt minimum cybersecurity standards and face annual audits under new legislation introduced by two prominent senators on Thursday. The Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act, announced by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mark Warner (D-VA), would  provide $1.3 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to support hospitals and create…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 06/16/2022

Bluetooth Signals Can Be Used to Track Smartphones, Say Researchers Researchers warn Bluetooth signals can be used to track device owners via a unique fingerprinting of the radio signal. The technique was presented via a paper presented at IEEE Security and Privacy conference last month by researchers at the University of California San Diego. The paper suggests that minor manufacturing imperfections in hardware are unique with each device, and cause measurable distortions which can be used as…
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