Up till now, the worst that computer hackers could do was steal your passwords, and maybe your money from your bank accounts. Now, comes evidence, that it is theoretically possible for a hacker to wirelessly hack into the pacemaker that a is installed in a person’s chest and modify its settings – and actually kill the person.<\/p>\n
See this post<\/a> for:<\/p>\n To the long list of objects vulnerable to attack by computer hackers, add the human heart.<\/p>\n The threat seems largely theoretical. But a team of computer security researchers plans to report Wednesday that it had been able to gain wireless access to a combination heart defibrillator and pacemaker.<\/p>\n They were able to reprogram it to shut down and to deliver jolts of electricity that would potentially be fatal \u2014 if the device had been in a person. In this case, the researcher were hacking into a device in a laboratory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Gives a new meaning to the phrase “he is in the hospital with a virus infection”.<\/p>\n See full article<\/a>. (via slashdot<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Up till now, the worst that computer hackers could do was steal your passwords, and maybe your money from your bank accounts. Now, comes evidence, that it is theoretically possible for a hacker to wirelessly hack into the pacemaker that a is installed in a person’s chest and modify its settings – and actually kill … Continue reading Hackers can hack your pacemaker!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}