http://www.massdevice.com/news/insulin-pump-hacker-gets-federal-attention-reps-ask-gao-investigation By MassDevice staff August 18, 2011 Reps Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) ask the Government Accountability Office to look into medical device security in response to the DefCon report from an insulin pump hacker. The recent report of an computer security expert who hacked his own insulin pump got the attention of members of the House Energy & Commerce Committee. This week senior committee members Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA) urged the Government Accountability Office to investigate the safety and security of wireless medical devices, citing an article written about the pump hack. "My initial reaction was that this was really cool from a technical perspective," security expert and hacker Jay Radcliffe told the Associated Press. "The second reaction was one of maybe sheer terror, to know that there's no security around the devices which are a very active part of keeping me alive." [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Fri Aug 19 2011 - 02:30:34 PDT
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