Is it really a pacemaker can be hacked?

An incident at the beginning of a patient, "I found myself lying on the floor. My hair was for orange juice. I do not know what happened, my head fall to help, I think you're bleeding," he says.

It is understood that after the incident the heart of Marie patient and pacemaker fitted. This is a small device that can be controlled from the outside computer.

Team working at a computer before Maria, thereupon began to question whether it is safe in the body of this device.

Cambridge University in England Computer Security Group and Risk Research gave a presentation on the invitation of the Center Marie Moe, 'foreign influences, an open device' life is how anlattı.mari to, the download to the computer the instructions for use of a pacemaker is not a device, two Having seen that wireless interface.

One of them allows the near field communication. In other words, this method enables a close-range communication between compatible devices, physicians can adjust the pacemaker is a device closer to the patient's body.

The second interface is a little more coverage, the data recorded by the pacemaker is easy to share via the Internet.

Maria reaches the hearts to understand that this information is now part of the Internet.

Inspired by the Homeland series

How to use this interface for external pacemakers' could be attacked "describing the first peer-reviewed study was conducted by a team at the University of Michigan Professor Kevin F presidency in 2008.

F Kevin's team showed combines a defibrillator with a pacemaker electric shock could occur.

In 2012, he engaged in research on security issues Barnaby Jack showed how an attack can be made using the radio frequency interface on a pacemaker.

Contrary to Professor Fusi, 15 meters away using a laptop computer, you can organize attacks.

An attack on Jack's showing a pacemaker using a section called Homeland is said to take inspiration from the spy series. But he does not say anything about it because it is dead then.

Cheney Fear

To assassinated by fear of public opinion in a case in which a pacemaker heard before.

The period in 2007. US Vice President Dick Cheney, the wireless function of the pacemaker with disabled cessation announced that safety concerns.

Simon Hanson cardiologist at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge that I'm the pacemakers 'hacked the' just think that the risk theory.

"The only serious attempt I've seen on the subject, a team brought the device to 20 cm proximity deal for 2 days and it cost 30 thousand dollars," he says.

Hanson, heart pacemakers to follow at home sick of the wireless feature is very helpful in terms of telling, but rather to make retrospective changes in the battery, draws attention to the importance of providing security first.