pacemaker

According to a new report, weak software programming by medical companies could allow a hacker to deliver a fatal shock to a heart patient. The report is based on research by Barnaby Jack, a security analyst for IOActive who specializes in threats ... to medical technology. In a recent presentation at the Breakpoint Security Conference in Melbourne, Australia, Jack said that programming flaws associated with the wireless transmitters that send data to pacemakers could be exploited by hackers. According to Jack, hackers could exploit this vulnerability in a way that "could definitely result in ... (view more)

A new study has found that iPods and pacemakers can be a harmful mixture. The idea for such a connection did not initially come from a Cardiovascualar doctor, but from a Michigan teenager. 17-year-old Jay Thaker, whose father wears a pacemaker, ... approached Dr. Krit Jongnarangsin from the University of Michigan to run some tests on the possibility of pacemaker interference from iPods. (Source: dailytech.com ) "We took patients from a pacemaker clinic, got consent, and we put the pacemaker programmer on them to view what was going on inside the pacemaker on a screen," Thaker explained. "And then ... (view more)