Rice University professor Farinaz Koushanfar (left) and her student Masoud Rostami (right) invented security technique for implantable medical devices that prevents wireless attacks.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
#ALGORITHMS: "Hacking Medical Implants Foiled"
When vice president Dick Cheney got a pacemaker, the Secret Service is said to have taken extra precautions to prevent hackers from reprogramming it. Now researchers at Rice University wants to provide even better safeguards for the rest of us. A new algorithm that uses the patients own heartbeat as a random password generator is said to prevent hackers from gaining wireless access to pacemakers, insulin pumps,defibrillators, neural implants, and drug delivery systems: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog
Rice University professor Farinaz Koushanfar (left) and her student Masoud Rostami (right) invented security technique for implantable medical devices that prevents wireless attacks.Further Reading
Rice University professor Farinaz Koushanfar (left) and her student Masoud Rostami (right) invented security technique for implantable medical devices that prevents wireless attacks.
