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June 28, 2019 04:41 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CkElGgs2G-4/fda-warns-about-insulin-pump-cybersecurity
FDA Warns About Insulin Pump Cybersecurity
Something new for diabetes patients to worry about: Someone nearby could potentially connect wirelessly to your Medtronic MiniMed insulin pump, the FDA warned yesterday. From a report: While the agency said that, as far as it knows, no one has actually hacked into someone else's insulin pump and harmed them, this is the future of health care cyber risk. They could then change the pump's settings, causing it to deliver too much or too little insulin to the patient. The agency said that patients using certain models of the pump should switch to less vulnerable ones.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CkElGgs2G-4/fda-warns-about-insulin-pump-cybersecurity
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