Pacemakers could be infiltrated to deliver deadly shocks, according to a security expert. It wouldn’t be simple, but it offers the very James Bond-like possibility of anonymous digital assassination.
“The worst case scenario that I can think of, which is 100 percent possible with these devices, would be to load a compromised firmware update onto a programmer and … the compromised programmer would then infect the next pacemaker or [defibrillator] and then each would subsequently infect all others in range”
http://www.popsci.com/technology/ar...-pacemakers-distance-delivering-deadly-shocks
Not cool. Would not be happy at all if someone somehow infected my grandparents' pacemakers.
“The worst case scenario that I can think of, which is 100 percent possible with these devices, would be to load a compromised firmware update onto a programmer and … the compromised programmer would then infect the next pacemaker or [defibrillator] and then each would subsequently infect all others in range”
http://www.popsci.com/technology/ar...-pacemakers-distance-delivering-deadly-shocks
Not cool. Would not be happy at all if someone somehow infected my grandparents' pacemakers.