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Hack causes pacemakers to deliver life-threatening shocks (arstechnica.com)
4 points by el_duderino on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



When I saw this story I was reminded of Bloomberg’s story yesterday that also got linked here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-08/the-250-b...

There are sometimes both “good” and “evil” ways to exploit security vulnerabilities in hard-to-update devices. After seeing a “good way” to hack vulnerable medical devices yesterday, I was wondering when we’d see an “evil way”. Guess I didn’t have to wait long...




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