Cars and medical tech can get hacked!
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 1:41 pm
I found this information originally in this Cracked.com article. From there, I looked up their source material and found the following articles:
So the bottom line is that cars and medical equipment that're connected to the Internet are vulnerable to hacking attempts. By "vulnerable" I mean someone could disable your brakes or cause an insulin pump to either not work or keep working without stopping. Either way, these things can be lethal.
So the bottom line is that cars and medical equipment that're connected to the Internet are vulnerable to hacking attempts. By "vulnerable" I mean someone could disable your brakes or cause an insulin pump to either not work or keep working without stopping. Either way, these things can be lethal.