Researcher hacks wireless insulin pump to push lethal doses, gives diabetics nightmares

Thought the demonstration of a Subaru Outback (the official car of suburban weekend warriors) being unlocked and began via text message was terrifying? Wait till you spot what researcher and diabetic Jay Radcliffe cooked up for the Black Hat Technical Security Conference . Radcliffe found out methods to hack an insulin pump connected to a wireless glucose monitor and deliver lethal doses of the sugar-regulating hormone. While perhaps less dramatic than shocking an individual to death with their own pacemaker , quietly causing an insulin overdose isn’t any less effective at bringing a life to a premature end. The foremost worrisome part, with a robust enough antenna a hacker to launch such an attack from as much as half of one mile away — sleep tight everybody!

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