{"id":232,"date":"2008-05-26T06:54:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T14:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cubist.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/?p=232"},"modified":"2008-05-26T07:06:53","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T15:06:53","slug":"pacemaker-and-implantable-defibrillator-paper-at-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/2008\/05\/26\/pacemaker-and-implantable-defibrillator-paper-at-oakland\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacemaker and Implantable Defibrillator Security Paper at Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Washington CSE PhD student <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.washington.edu\/homes\/dhalperi\/\">Dan Halperin<\/a>\u00a0<em>et al.<\/em>&#8216;s paper on the security and privacy for pacemakers and implantable defibrillators just received the Best Paper Award at the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieee-security.org\/TC\/SP2008\/oakland08.html\">IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy<\/a>\u00a0(a.k.a. the &#8220;Oakland&#8221; conference).<\/p>\n<p>Dan and the rest of the team from UW, UMass Amherst, and Harvard Medical School found that an implantable cardioverter defibrillator can leak private information and can allow unauthorized parties to modify settings that control, among other things, shock therapies. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can read Dan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secure-medicine.org\/icd-study\/icd-study.pdf\">full paper<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secure-medicine.org\/icd-study\/icd-faq.html\">FAQ<\/a>, as well as his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secure-medicine.org\/PervasiveIMDSecurity.pdf\">earlier work<\/a> on the topic of medical device security. \u00a0You can also read summaries of Dan&#8217;s work in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/12\/business\/12heart-web.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">The New York Times<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120528705417629357.html\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/rbssHealthcareNews\/idUSN1163065520080312\">Reuters<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/computersecurity\/hacking\/2008-03-12-defribrillator-hack_N.htm\">Associated Press<\/a>. \u00a0Bruce Schneier also provides excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/hacking_medical_1.html\">commentary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Dan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Washington CSE PhD student Dan Halperin\u00a0et al.&#8216;s paper on the security and privacy for pacemakers and implantable defibrillators just received the Best Paper Award at the annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy\u00a0(a.k.a. the &#8220;Oakland&#8221; conference). Dan and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/2008\/05\/26\/pacemaker-and-implantable-defibrillator-paper-at-oakland\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,156,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-current-events","category-research","category-security-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}