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A Heart Device Is Found Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks

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To the long list of objects vulnerable to attack by computer hackers, add the human heart.

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.

They were able to reprogram it to shut down and to deliver jolts of electricity that would potentially be fatal — if the device had been in a person. In this case, the researcher were hacking into a device in a laboratory.

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Dr.Mahdi

MuslimDoc:
Interesting news.

So this means, if someone hack this device he can control the heart beat of the person (Standby Restart or even Shutdown)!!!

Hope that will not happen!
MuslimDoc

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