Hacked terminals capable of causing pacemaker deaths

[Littlebits]

IOActive researcher Barnaby Jack has reverse-engineered a pacemaker transmitter to make it possible to deliver deadly electric shocks to pacemakers within 30 feet and rewrite their firmware.

The effect of the wireless attacks could not be overstated — in a speech at the BreakPoint security conference in Melbourne today, Jack said such attacks were tantamount to “anonymous assassination”, and in a realistic but worse-case scenario, “mass murder”.

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[MalwareVirus]

Really interesting ,may be its become a futher weapon

 

[MrXidus]

Now that is terrifying, I know someone with a pacemaker and seeing this certainly worries me...