Hacking Your Medical Equipment
We’ve posted a bit more on hacking and security lately but this one is sure to raise concerns. At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, NV, diabetic Jerome Radcliffe demonstrated how he was able to hack his own life-saving insulin pump.
Radcliffe found that his insulin pump utilized an unencrypted wireless sensor and, “was configured much more like a dumb device where the manufacturers assumed no one would try to hack it” according to Venturebeat.
Radcliffe adds, “I can get full remote control” of someone else’s insulin pump, Radcliffe said. “If I were an evil hacker, I could issue commands to give insulin, without anyone else’s authority. This is scary. And I can manipulate the data so it happens in a stealth way.”
Hacking medical devices is nothing new, as this 2008 article on hacking pace makers shows, but it is alarming based on the increasing amount of technology in our lives combined with the increasing online population.
Do stories like these cause you concern at all, or are they simply another call to action for more security testing? …or both?
Hacking may not be good process all the time, do buying to make it available all the time…..lol