Black Hat: Insulin pumps can be hacked : “Everything has an embedded processor and computer in it,” he said. “Every time you hide behind [security by] obscurity, it is going to fail.” Brad Smith, a researcher and Black Hat conference staffer who also is a registered nurse, said the medical field largely looks the other way when it comes to securing patient devices. “I lecture at all the medical conferences,” he said during the press conference. “They just hide it. Pay attention to what [Radcliffe] is saying. His life is in this pump.” (via Risks Digest)
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