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July 9, 2020 02:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8JuatKYCFcg/smartwatch-hack-could-trick-patients-to-take-pills-with-spoofed-alerts
Smartwatch Hack Could Trick Patients To 'Take Pills' With Spoofed Alerts
Security researchers say a smartwatch, popular with the elderly and dementia patients, could have been tricked into letting an attacker easily take control of the device. From a report: These watches are designed to help patients to easily call their carers and for carers to track the location of their patients. They come with their own cellular connection, so that they work anywhere. But researchers at U.K.-based security firm Pen Test Partners found that they could trick the smartwatch into sending fake "take pills" reminders to patients as often as they want, they said. "A dementia sufferer is unlikely to remember that they had already taken their medication," wrote Vangelis Stykas in a blog post. "An overdose could easily result." The vulnerabilities were found in the back-end cloud system, known as SETracker, which powers the smartwatch.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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