People with pacemakers. V. You are not OK.

For those to lazy to click.

Step 1 - Defcon Conerence.
Step 2 - Learn to turn off pacemakers.
Step 3 - ???
Step 4 - Profit.

he Defcon conference is the wild and woolly version of Black Hat for the unwashed masses of hackers. It always has its share of unusual hacks. The oddest so far is a collaborative academic effort where medical device security researchers have figured out how to turn off someone’s pacemaker via remote control. They previously disclosed the paper at a conference in May. But the larger point of the vulnerability of all wirelessly-controlled medical devices remains a hot topic here at the show in Las Vegas.

thanks for the cliffs

http://blog.blacknight.com/images/thumbs-up.jpg

Hah, thats great. On of switch for the masses.

Darwin says no. click

Seriously though, some crazy shit.

wowzers nice

thats wrong on so many levels

i saw this… crazy…

It amazes me that they would design something this critical that could communicate on an unencrypted frequency.

I would guess pacemaker companies are not the most security minded people…

you would thing it has a range like 50ft or so

I find it rather reassuring that it took 2 years of funded research at a major university to crack it.

Yea I just noticed that part of the article…

If it took them two years to crack it…Im sure you won’t have every idiot online being able to recreate this attack.

Faraday shirts FTW

LOL

It always takes longer to build a path than to walk down one someone already built for you.

Unless they find the only passable route and build a wall. :eyebrow:

If you spend two years trying to break any technology that needs to be accessible remotely it will happen…