A Heart Device Is Found Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks

From The New York Times coverage of a new paper at the Medical Device Security Center:

[A] team of computer security researchers plans to report Wednesday that it had been able to gain wireless access to a combination heart defibrillator and pacemaker.

They were able to reprogram it to shut down and to deliver jolts of electricity that would potentially be fatal — if the device had been in a person. In this case, the researcher were hacking into a device in a laboratory.

How’s that for terrifying? This is further proof of the necessity of machine-aided proofs of security.

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