Posted by Eugene Volokh:
"Beware of Someone Hacking Into Your Pacemaker":
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_08_02-2009_08_08.shtml#1249408772
My friend Haym Hirsh, a computer science professor at Rutgers,
e-mails:
It turns out that you can reverse engineer a pacemaker with
sufficient accuracy that you can broadcast radio signals to it to
induce various undesirable actions, such as broadcasting the
pacemakers existence (including model and serial number),
broadcasting personal information such as the patient�s name,
disclosing cardiac data recorded by the device, changing the
patients name, changing therapies, and inducing fibrillation (!).
You can also perform a �denial of service� attack on it. All were
done via radio. See [1]http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8218 for a
high-level description,
[2]http://www.secure-medicine.org/icd-study/icd-study.pdf for
technical details. Not a new story -- it was out last year -- but
new to me.
References
1. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8218
2. http://www.secure-medicine.org/icd-study/icd-study.pdf
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