Researcher Reverse-Engineers Pacemaker Transmitter To Deliver Deadly Shocks 216
Bismillah writes "Pacemakers seem to be hackable now too, if researcher Barnaby Jack is to be believed. And the consequences of that are deadly. Anonymous assassinations within 30 feet of the pacemaker seem to be possible. From the article: 'In a video demonstration, which Jack declined to release publicly because it may reveal the name of the manufacturer, he issued a series of 830 volt shocks to the pacemaker using a laptop. The pacemakers contained a "secret function" which could be used to activate all pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) in a 30 foot -plus vicinity. ... In reverse-engineering the terminals – which communicate with the pacemakers – he discovered no obfuscation efforts and even found usernames and passwords for what appeared to be the manufacturer’s development server. That data could be used to load rogue firmware which could spread between pacemakers with the "potential to commit mass murder."'"
Vulnerability in pacemaker firmware? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Vulnerability in pacemaker firmware? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm shocked, shocked!%N#)NO CARRIER
Crank 3 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Isn't it plain and obvious... (Score:5, Funny)
Holy fucking Christ. What else is out there waiting to be compromised and exploited?
Your sanity?
Dick Cheney (Score:3, Funny)
Dick Cheney has a pacemaker...
Solution.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Vulnerability in pacemaker firmware? (Score:3, Funny)
Remember to disable fsck on startup!
Re:Isn't it plain and obvious... (Score:5, Funny)
utter shit if a fucking pacemaker
What the mother fuck?
Are you fucking kidding me?
end our bullshit and we end up descending into WW3.
work silently behind our backs to sabotage and/or kill us?
powerful foreign countries that just might kick our asses
Holy fucking Christ.
Ask your doctor if Xanax is right for you
DNS (Score:4, Funny)