Not only implants should be secured by IT security methods. Back then it was very expensive and complex, but with today’s computer power, it will be much easier. Not really, a New York Times article described a successful cyberattack on a pacemaker carried out under laboratory circumstances already in 2008. The FDA can recall products now related to cybersecurity concerns not just due to fatality concerns.īut is it new that medical devices can be hacked? This recall was related to an infusion pump which was hacked via an Ethernet port and a laptop, because no safeguards were implemented for this maintenance interface. Last year the FDA pronounced a recall of medical devices related to cybersecurity issues for the first time in the history of the authority. But with each connection to the outside world, a device becomes vulnerable which must be secured in a way that this connection cannot be used to harm patients.

On the Chaos Communication Congress in December 2015 in Hamburg, Germany, there was a talk about medical devices with new functions like a Bluetooth connection by a pacemaker to connect them to smartphones or a gateway for telemedicine. It slows you down, but it also makes it possible for you to go a lot faster.

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