With many articles recently referring to the lack of security in IoT devices , Blackberry has taken this one step further by hacking a drug delivery center , common in many hospitals , to deliver fatal doses of drugs without any indication on the device , or on stage . That's what occurred last month when BlackBerry Chief Security Officer David Kleidermacher and security professional Graham Murphy showed how easy it is for hackers to take control of a hospital drug infusion pump by overwriting the device's firmware with malicious software. It is unclear whether they have passed the FDA"s alert on unsecured devices .
With many articles recently referring to the lack of security in IoT devices , Blackberry has taken this one step further by hacking a drug delivery center , common in many hospitals , to deliver fatal doses of drugs without any indication on the device , or on stage . It is unclear whether they have passed the FDA"s alert on unsecured devices .