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Writer's pictureKen Ecott

Pacemaker recall after hack!


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It appears a new age of medical device security has dawned. The US agency for approval of medical devices and drugs has recently ordered a recall of all pacemaker devices manufactured by St Jude Medical.

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Richard Staynings wrote on the 11th September 2017 "Last week the United States Food and Drug Administration took the unprecedented step of recalling a biomedical device following concerns over its lack of cybersecurity. The device in question — a St Jude Medical cardiac rhythm management product or pacemaker to the rest of us — had been successfully hacked in August 2016 at the behest of a financial trading company, Muddy Waters Capital, for stock market gain."

This could spell the beginning in a new era of cyber secure medical devices...

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