Heartbeat patterns could keep wireless implants secure

sea-maid submitted, created time 4 months 5 days (technology.newscientist.com)

If future medical implants are to communicate safely, they need to be hacker resistant – a person's pulse could provide the key.

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How to stop a new type of heart attack

sea-maid submitted, created time 4 months 2 weeks (technology.newscientist.com)

PACEMAKERS are supposed to protect people from heart attacks. But to do that they have to provide digital as well as biological security.
Earlier this year, a team led by William Maisel at Harvard Medical School demonstrated how a commercial radio transmitter could be used to modify wireless communications from a pacemaker (New Scientist, 22 March, p 23). Doctors normally use these signals to monitor and adjust the implanted device, but a malicious hacker could reprogram the pacemaker to give its wearer damaging shocks, or run down its batteries

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When Doctors Become Terrorists

jiangyun submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (content.nejm.org)

British security services are reported to be alarmed because the alleged perpetrators were people not well known to the police and intelligence community beforehand. But that is not what has caught the public's attention. Seven of the eight arrested are physicians, the eighth is a medical technician, and all worked for the National Health Service (NHS).

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Bomb found in Texas abortion clinic parking lot

fiona submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.msnbc.msn.com)

"A bomb was left in a duffel bag in the parking lot of a clinic where abortions are performed, but a bomb squad safely detonated it."

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