“While investigating potential security holes in wireless pacemakers, Kevin Fu, software engineer and assistant professor of computer science at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, has created a prototype “heart-attack machine,” according to a MIT Technology Review report.
Fu spent nine months de-constructing the “matchbook-sized microchip and antenna coil” that connects the latest generation ICDs to the Internet to uncover its security risk potential. Fu correctly believed that hackers could be able to listen in on the wireless communication between an ICD and its programming computer and then use that signal to control the device and inflict harm on the patient.”
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews, 18 August 2009
