With many articles recently referring to the lack of security in IoT devices, Blackberry has taken this one step further by hacking a drug infusion device, common in many hospitals, to deliver fatal dosages of drugs without any indication on the device, live on stage. Although the video demonstration, conducted at the Blackberry Security Summit in New York, doesn't identify the model and brand of the pump being attack, security researcher Billy Rios says it's the Lifecare PCA drug infusion pump made by Hospira, an Illinois-based firm with more than 400,000 intravenous drug pumps installed in hospitals around the world. The device is called an Infusion Pump and it was developed at the University of Washington with support from Microsoft.
With many articles recently referring to the lack of security in IoT devices, Blackberry has taken this one step further by hacking a drug infusion device, common in many hospitals, to deliver fatal dosages of drugs without any indication on the device, live on stage. The device is called an Infusion Pump and it was developed at the University of Washington with support from Microsoft.