Healthcare IT: When TV drama meets real-life medical device security

“‘Murder by pacemaker’” isn’t a real thing, is it?” my friend asked. She’d been binging on Netflix and caught a TV drama in which the victim’s pacemaker was hacked. From a remote location, the hacker—a murderer for hire—was able to access the device, accelerate the victim’s heart rate, and cause cardiac arrest.

Source : https://blogs.cisco.com/healthcare/healthcare-it-when-tv-drama-meets-real-life-medical-device-security

Date : August 29, 2019 at 04:29PM

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