Posted on 07/26/2013 10:13:41 AM PDT by DFG
A computer hacker who gained cult status across the internet after revealing how to hack cash machines has been found a week before he was due to demonstrate how to kill someone by hacking their pacemaker.
The body of Barnaby Jack was found in San Francisco yesterday. The city's medical examiner's office would not give any further details.
Jack, a security expert, became one of the most famous hackers on the planet after a 2010 demonstration in which he forced ATMs to spit out cash, dubbed 'Jackpotting'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
OTOH, my mom's cardiologist routinely tweaks her pacemaker's program for better results.
He doesn't have to hack her chest open to do it either.
Yep, you deliberately leave out significant details and even FReepers will cheer on a murder.
Amazing ain't it?
Jack most recently was the director of embedded security research at IOActive. He had worked in the security industry for more than a decade, serving in various roles at McAfee, Juniper Networks (NSDQ:JNPR), eEye digital Security and FoundStone.FoundStone. That sounds recently familiar. (??)
Jack later turned his focus to hacking automobile systems and electronic medical devices, showing how small systems and components that run critical processes can be used by an attacker to cause serious damage or death.Interesting.
McAfee puts Barnaby Jack on car-jacking hackers’ case • The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/21/mcafee_car_hacking/
Aug 21, 2012 ... McAfee has put together an elite team of researchers to investigate how to go about protecting car systems from next-generation hacking ...
And his cause of death is ?
oh i dont know the government steals it from you just to give it to the people who would steal it from you so may as well cut out the middleman
What was he gonna demonstrate? Remote-controlled voting machines?
[snip]... Conversely, in regard to how vulnerable vehicles are to high tech hack attacks, John Bumgarner, chief technology officer of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, said "You can definitely kill people." The headlights go off; you’re touching the steering wheel but the car is instead responding to the steering of an unseen attacker, the brakes don’t respond no matter how hard you stomp on them because someone 1,000 miles away has remote control of your vehicle. It might seem like your car is haunted if it suddenly responded to nothing you did and everything an outside attacker did, but it’s not a job for Ghostbusters.So who you gonna call? How about BARNABY JACK! He’s made ATMs spit out cash like a person hit the big-time jackpot and showed the public just how easily medical devices can be remotely hacked in a public space from 300 feet away from the victim. [snip]...
Jack is part of the TRACE team investigating how to protect embedded systems, hardware and devices from next-generation hacking attacks. That research includes finding and fixing vulnerabilities such as those in medical devices and car systems. As we read about the endless attack vectors in the computer with four wheels in which we sit inside and drive at high speeds, it makes us feel a bit better to know Jack is on the job.
Don't know yet. From the CRN article in #63 above:
Reuters reported that the San Francisco Medical Examiner's office confirmed his death in the city Thursday. It did not elaborate on the cause of death.
Sure wish we knew what his E mails
Said in the last days
Also wonder if his
Bank account shows any suspicious activity
Probably someone challenged him and he accepted to hack an electronic fraud machine. That the FEC oversees.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/ar
Died HOW?!?!?
I have to wonder if some US "alphabet soup" agency just did not like the competition, when it came to a nasty trick like that.But there would be one thing on which I would almost bet real money here: the man did not die of natural causes.
WEBMASTER UPDATE: The San Francisco Medical Examiner is refusing to release the details of just how Barnady Jack died, and it should be remembered that the Black Hat Conference is hand-in-glove with the NSA! Jack was reportedly working with the manufacturer of the pacemaker in question to block the remote exploit he had discovered. Now, how many US politicians and officials are wearing pacemakers that can be remotely accessed to assassinate them in the middle of a crowded room surrounded by security? And would the NSA want a new improved pacemaker available that blocked that capability?
Since medical examined has not given details of death they may suspect something Even the drug deaths they acknowledge sending material to the lab or mention an autopsy. Friday afternoon not much news
Cat videos and karma whores on Imgur.
I’ve read numerous reports that the Fedguv is funding research by Intel AND AMD to pump up timelines for quantum computing research. They NEED the atom-level processing provided by graphene research to achieve the level of both decryption AND data mining they’re trying to accomplish.
If you’re interested in a good read, do a web search for ‘NSA data analytics.’
He was just on Special Report. Working with University Texas. Planes GPS already taken to congress and HLS. They are doing nothing
I just saw that segment but didn’t make the connection. Things that make you go hmmm...
McAfee puts Barnaby Jack on car-jacking hackers' caseBOLO for others who were on that "elite team of researchers."
Security whiz to thwart actual crashes
By John Leyden, 21st August 2012 McAfee has put together an elite team of researchers to investigate how to go about protecting car systems from next-generation hacking attacks.Members of the team include Barnaby Jack, the security researcher best known for demonstrating ways that crooks can force ATMs to spit out cash and for highlighting security shortcomings in insulin pumps. [snip]
The McAfee team will be assigned to looking into much the same issues but with a slightly different mandate, geared towards developing security software and other protection technologies suitable for car-based embedded computing systems.
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