McAfee Claims Successful Insulin Pump Attack

judgecorp writes "Intel security subsidiary McAfee has claimed a successful wireless attack on insulin pumps that diabetics rely on to control blood sugar. While previous attempts to attack insulin pumps have met with mixed success, McAfee's Barnaby Jack says he has persuaded an insulin pump to deliver 45 days worth of insulin in one go, without triggering the pump's vibrating alert safety feature. All security experts still say that surgical implants are a benefit overall."

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Re:Wow

[dgatwood]

Try essentially impossible to investigate. How many people do you walk within twenty feet of in any given week? Any given year? Now imagine that any one of those people might have been the person who injected code that waits a predetermined period of time, does something bad, and then erases the location where the time delay is stored so that the original value cannot be recovered after the fact.... Or worse, overwrites the time delay with a value that implicates someone else.