{"id":12621,"date":"2012-10-19T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12621"},"modified":"2012-10-19T03:00:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T08:00:04","slug":"coming-soon-to-a-csi-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12621","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon? To a CSI Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/cybercrime-and-hacking\/21163\/pacemaker-hacker-says-worm-could-possibly-commit-mass-murder\">Pacemaker hacker says worm could possibly &#8216;commit mass murder&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a conundrum of security vs access for medical devices that use WiFi access \u2014 you don&#8217;t want doctors being shut out because they don&#8217;t have the password, but no safeguards means that anyone can hack in and disrupt the hardware.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Besides reverse engineering a pacemaker to deliver a deadly shock from 30 &#8211; 50 feet away, he demonstrated how he could rewrite the devices&#8217; onboard firmware. Jack also said it possible to upload malicious firmware to servers that would be capable of infecting pacemakers and ICDs. \u201cWe are potentially looking at a worm with the ability to commit mass murder,&#8221; Jack said. &#8220;It&#8217;s kind of scary.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait to see this as a TV plot, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacemaker hacker says worm could possibly &#8216;commit mass murder&#8217; There&#8217;s a conundrum of security vs access for medical devices that use WiFi access \u2014 you don&#8217;t want doctors being shut out because they don&#8217;t have the password, but no safeguards &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12621\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,48,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body","category-security","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}