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Y la seguridad en la SALUD? (#1)

junio 4th, 2017 | Posted by kwelladm in Publicaciones | Salud

El IoT (Internet of Things) o Internet de las cosas empieza a ser furor, pero en medicina (en su época sin Internet) la electrónica hace décadas que está de parabienes, si bien los temas inherentes a la seguridad no fueron prioridad ya que el foco era y es “ayudar” en el área de salud.

En los próximos cuatro artículos incursionaremos en estos apasionantes terrenos, espero que sean de interés!

En 2012, el hacker Barnaby Jack ya había anunciado que podía tomar control de los marcapasos, y murió repentinamente en San Francisco llevádose el secreto a la tumba. Barnaby tenía planeado presentarse en la convención Black Hat una semana después, donde contaría cómo acceder a estos implantes.

Creemos que es interesante reproducir a continuación qué se decía en esos años:

Hackers can control your implants

Security experts warn of malware

Insecurity experts have warned that many medical implants are vulnerable to cyber attacks that could endanger their users’ lives. While an increasing number of patients are being fitted with devices such as pacemakers and insulin pumps to manage chronic conditions apparently the inventors did not think anyone would be evil enough to try and hack them.For some reason they installed unprotected wireless links so that they could be updated easily.  Which also means that hackers could gain remote control of such implants because they rely on unprotected wireless links to update them. After gaining access to the device, a cyber criminal could then switch it off or tell it to deliver a dangerous dose of medicine to the patient.

Researchers said although there hadn’t been any known attacks to date, far more work is needed to protect implants from malicious actions. Barnaby Jack, an analyst at security firm McAfee, has revealed how he was able to hijack a well-known make of insulin pump within two weeks by hacking its radio signals using a small antenna. He was also able to disable security alerts that warn the user something is awry. The hacker can take it out from 100 metres away.

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