Black Hat Security Conference<\/a>, researcher Jay Radcliffe demonstrated a method for hacking into two different medical devices used to treat diabetes: a glucose meter and an insulin pump. He pointed out that most medical implants aren’t designed to allow firmware updates to patch security issues nor are they secured wireless connections used in cases where the devices communicate with external equipment.<\/p>\nI wonder what the annual subscription cost will be for McAfee Internet Security, Human Implant edition?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
British researcher Mark Gasson became the first person to infect himself with a computer virus and spread the infection to a machine, in the name of science. To be fair, this isn’t a case of human flesh actually contracting a virus made of software code. The Senior Research Fellow at the University of Reading pulled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,907,906],"tags":[2409,2408,2410,2404,2402,2401,2405,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9722,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions\/9722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}