Chucaro
6th November 2012, 09:45 AM
"A hacker with a laptop watches a crowd of people from a distance, presses a button and 10 people grip their chests and drop dead." :eek:
(http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/fatal-risk-at-heart-of-lax-security-20121102-28ore.html)
At the Breakpoint security conference in Melbourne last month, Mr Jack demonstrated how he was able to deliver a deadly 830-volt jolt to a pacemaker by logging into it remotely after hacking it, but did not reveal which models were vulnerable, a standard practice for ethical hackers, known as "white hats".
(http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/fatal-risk-at-heart-of-lax-security-20121102-28ore.html)
At the Breakpoint security conference in Melbourne last month, Mr Jack demonstrated how he was able to deliver a deadly 830-volt jolt to a pacemaker by logging into it remotely after hacking it, but did not reveal which models were vulnerable, a standard practice for ethical hackers, known as "white hats".