Hackers are making the headlines these days like never before. From video game systems to voicemail account, it seems like almost every type of electronic device or information storage medium can be hacked to either give up information or perform actions it wasn’t initially designed to do.
Considering medical implants, for example, high ‑tech medical devices like pacemakers and insulin pumps can save lives, but hackers can actually utilize their built−∈ wireless features for less helpful purposes. Researchers have demonstrated that certain pacemakers that use a wireless signal for easy tweaking are vulnerable to anyone with the correct reprogramming hardware. Doctors use these wireless programming devices to make subtle adjustments to the heart helpers without the need for further surgeries. Unfortunately, the signal they use is unencrypted, meaning that anyone who finds a way to obtain such a device could literally manipulate the heart of a patient, causing cardiac arrest, or even death.
IInsulin pumps are apparently even more susceptible to outside interference, and at the recent Black Hat hacker conference ∈Las Vegas, the life ‑saving pumps were shown to be vulnerable from distances of up to a half mile. Using power radio antennas, hackers can hijack a pump’s wireless signal and cause it to give a blast of insulin to a wearer, with potentially deadly results.
Disponível em: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology ‑blog/5 ‑ things-probably-didn-t-know-could-hacked-174330493.html>. Acesso em: 20 set.2013.
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