Have a heart (attack): Defibrillators, pacemakers vulnerable to hackers

[NucleusKore]

Researchers have discovered that an implantable heart device, a combination of a defibrillator and pacemaker, is vulnerable to hackers.

According to a study, authored by researchers at the University of Washington, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Harvard Medical School, hackers could get wireless access to a heart device and shut it down (a power denial of service attack) or deliver jolts of electricity. In either case, it wouldn’t be fun for whoever had the pacemaker.

Read On...... (http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8218)

[T159]

a risk worth taken

[The_Devil_Himself]

wtf! who put wireless connectivity to a pacemaker?

[T159]

IMO u can jam any electronic device

[rohan_shenoy]

Nice find :D

[hullap]

simple just go and install this (http://www.getgnulinux.org/) in the pacemaker :D:lol::razz:

[pannaguma]

just imagine:
few hundred years in the future, people dont die coz they have artificial heart ......... electronically controlled they just dont stop beating..........

all you need to do is use a very strong EMP, and everyone drops dead....... LOL

[ring_wraith]

just imagine:
few hundred years in the future, people dont die coz they have artificial heart ......... electronically controlled they just dont stop beating..........

all you need to do is use a very strong EMP, and everyone drops dead....... LOL

LOL? How can you possibly LOL? People dropping dead is LOL... what a sicko.

[iinfi]

wtf! who put wireless connectivity to a pacemaker?

i v read somewhere pacemakers connect to the internet and alert docs and medics abt the patients health and health of the patient is monitored.

[The_Devil_Himself]

IMO u can jam any electronic device

of course,thats why you are asked not to use mobile phones if you have pacemaker installed.:p.

[ax3]

holy ant ..... future is damn scary with this technology ......