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'.
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And social media gets slower on weekends, when people aren't surfing from work, so it'll be forgotten by Monday.
I wonder what day of the week Breitbart and Hastings died?
We need to send him the info. This year it was about ships. Earlier drones and planes. Cars were mentioned on show before just not featured
There was a thread or two about a week ago about hackers asking NSA not to attend their annual conference. NSA does a lot of recruiting at those.
Interesting. I'm off onto something else now and didn't save it, but i ran across something a little while ago that said NSA is speaking at the Black Hat conference this year. Maybe that got cancelled.
bfl
The attendees asked that NSA not attend. I can’t find it and I’m looking. Was it in Vegas?
<< The attendees asked that NSA not attend. I can’t find it and I’m looking. Was it in Vegas? >>
Yeah, Vegas
Go to StartPage.com and type in keywords “2013 black hat conference nsa” and you’ll get some results on it.
The conference site is: http://www.blackhat.com/us-13/
Good Job.
Or a swerve into a tree?
The hacks were accomplished by connecting to the cars’ computers via the on-board diagnostics port, usually used by mechanics to identify faults. From this entry point Valasek and Miller sent a series of instructions to the car that overrode commands from the driver.
The pair [of researchers] were able to change the read-out on the fuel tank and the speedometer, disable the brakes, tighten the seat-belts (the cars engage this function in the event of a crash) and even take control of the wheel, remotely swerving the vehicle to the side – a hack that could be deadly on a busy road.
Toyota were dismissive of the research, claiming that the cars were not actually ‘hacked’ because the work required physical access to the car. Valasek and Miller have responded by noting that wireless access to cars’ on-board software has been possible since 2010, with a range of techniques from Bluetooth bugs to app malware used to gain access.
The pair said that connecting the dots between remotely accessing a vehicle’s software and hacking those same systems isn’t difficult.
Is this what they get for dissin’ the “an essay”???
No, he doesn’t but he has to do what my cardiologists does to me when he checks mine, he hangs a wand over the pacemaker and a wire runs from it to a computer which allows control over the device. In other words there has to be physical contact with the pace maker. I repeat, there can be no hacking of a pace maker unless you have physical access to the person who has it installed. You can also check the pace maker over the phone, but again there has to be wires actually touching the person with the pace maker which run through a small machine, thence from there over the phone lines. I repeat...well you get the idea.
*sigh* Yes, you are absolutely right, the small signals that are broadcast through the skin cannot be broadcast through the air and then through the skin, even if you have the full resources of a Nation-State or a rural Radio Shack™.
Incorrect. Implantable pacemakers and cardioverters are interrogated and programmed via an external telemetric link with a handheld programmer. Protection circuitry inside of the unit shunts the energy induced into the pacing leads to the case. The FDA requires that pacemakers withstand defib and ESU discharges. In fact an implantable cardioverter combines a pacemaker with a defibrillator. Also, during the validation process the implantable undergoes emissions and susceptibility testing and all pacers must revert to a known safe state if it encounters a strong discharge or electromagnetic field.
And accelerator?
The next time you're in your cardiologists' office have him hold the coil away from the implant and then interrogate it.
I’ve just never understood your tagline.
This is untrue as it regards some vehicles (think self-parking systems). Even if it were true, what good does it do you to be able to steer a car going 120 MPH that you can't slow down?
I’m trying to teach Resolute Conservative why his/her habit of generalizing is a mistake.
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