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Medical device security ignites an ethics firestorm

29
Aug
2016

One security research company is taking a controversial approach to disclosing vulnerabilities: It’s publicizing the flaws as a way to tank a company’s stock. The security firm, MedSec, made news on Thursday when it claimed that pacemakers and other health care products from St. Jude Medical contain vulnerabilities that expose them to hacks. However, MedSec […]

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Hacking Drug Pumps

18
Jun
2015

When you connect hospital drug pumps to the Internet, they’re hackable — only surprising people who aren’t paying attention. Rios says when he first told Hospira a year ago that hackers could update the firmware on its pumps, the company “didn’t believe it could be done.” Hospira insisted there was “separation” between the communications module […]

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