Wednesday, 29. February 2012
Topic: SECURITY - on February 29, 2012 at 6:08:00 PM CET
Hacker Shows Off Lethal Attack By Controlling Wireless Medical Device
In his San Francisco apartment, Barnaby Jack waves a small antenna to demonstrate how a deadly hacker attack against a diabetic would begin.
The 34-year-old is best known for hacking into cash machines and making them spit out money on stage at a Black Hat computer security conference in 2010. Today, he is hunting security holes in wireless medical devices, and his latest stunt involves insulin pumps, the pager-sized devices that diabetics wear to dispense the lifesaving hormone into the body.
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