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Insulin pump hacker outs Medtronic after warnings ignored

posted onAugust 26, 2011
by l33tdawg

The security expert who hacked his own insulin pump revealed that the device came from Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT), and accused the med-tech giant of ignoring his warnings.

Jay Radcliffe, a diabetic and cyber threat intelligence analyst at IBM, presented results from experimenting on his own insulin pump at a series of security conferences in Las Vegas month, but he never revealed the brand of the pump in question or how he exploited its vulnerabilities.

"My initial reaction was that this was really cool from a technical perspective," Radcliffe told reporters. "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." "This is a pretty rare incident. We've never had a real report of a real hacking case affecting anybody," Medtronic's newly minted CEO said during a shareholder conference today. "We take our security seriously - but we also consider it a very unlikely event."

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