BigDataFr recommends: How the ‘Internet of Things’ could be fatal

Researcher Marie Moe woke up after emergency surgery in 2011 with a new pacemaker to correct a heart condition. What she didn’t realize at the time was that the lifesaving device in her chest exposed her to a completely different kind of threat.

The pacemaker keeping her alive has wireless connectivity capabilities — a detail her doctors didn’t tell her — meaning it could be hacked.

Moe was understandably disturbed that it never occurred to her doctors to tell her that her device had wireless capability, and they had not considered the security implications.

« They really had not thought about the pacemaker security at all, » she said.[…]

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By Harriet Taylor
Source: cnbc.com