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May 4, 2018 11:25 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rc3TEQROLb0/abbott-addresses-life-threatening-flaw-in-a-half-million-pacemakers
Abbott Addresses Life-Threatening Flaw In a Half-Million Pacemakers
lod123 shares a report from Threatpost: Nearly a half-million pacemakers are up for a firmware update to address potentially life-threatening vulnerabilities. Abbott (formerly St. Jude Medical) has released another upgrade to the firmware installed on certain implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) or cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) devices -- a.k.a., pacemakers. About 465,000 patients are affected. The update will strengthen the devices' protection against unauthorized access, as the provider said in a statement on its website: "It is intended to prevent anyone other than your doctor from changing your device settings." The update comes after 2016 claims by researchers that the then-St. Jude's cardiac implant ecosystem was rife with cybersecurity flaws that could result in "catastrophic results."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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