Ännu ett mystiskt dödsfall med en ung man i USA. Barnaby Jack, en säkerhetsexpert och hackare, var inbokad som föreläsare på en konferens i Las Vegas. Barnaby skulle avslöja tekniken bakom hack mot medicinsk utrustning, och hur det är möjligt att hacka pacemakers och därigenom döda patienter på avstånd.
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Efter 6 månaders intensiv IT-forskning hade Barnaby Jack till slut skapat en teknik som på avstånd kunde slå ut pacemakers. Barnaby Jack blev dock själv funnen död 7 dagar före sin planerade föreläsning och sitt sensationella avslöjande...
http://rt.com/usa/hacker-pacemaker-barnaby-jack-639/
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Hacker dies days before he was to reveal how to remotely kill pacemaker patients
RT 2013-07-26
Security researcher Barnaby Jack has passed away in San Francisco, only days before a scheduled appearance at a Las Vegas hacker conference where he intended to show how an ordinary pacemaker could be compromised in order to kill a man.
Jack, who previously presented hacks involving ATMs and insulin pumps at the annual Black Hat conference in Vegas, was confirmed dead Friday morning by the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s office, Reuters reported. He passed away Thursday this week, but the office declined to offer any more details at this time.
- Jack’s death came one week to the day before he was scheduled to detail one of his most recent exploits in a Black Hat talk called “Implantable Medical Devices: Hacking Humans.”
“I was intrigued by the fact that these critical life devices communicate wirelessly. I decided to look at pacemakers and ICDs (implantable cardioverter defibrillators) to see if they communicated securely and if it would be possible for an attacker to remotely control these devices,” Jack told Vice last month.
Black Hat’s organizers will not be filling Jack’s spot at the event as a mark of respect for a “legendary and irreplaceable” man. Security firm IOActive also tweeted their condolences in homage of their “beloved pirate.”
After around six months of research, Jack said he developed a way to hack one of those devices remotely and send it a high-voltage shock from upwards of 50 feet away.
“If the devices can be accessed remotely, there's always a potential for abuse,” he told Vice tech reporter William Alexander.
In a blog post earlier this year, Jack said he was influenced by a recent episode of the television program "Homeland," in which a terrorist remotely hacked the pacemaker of the United States vice president.
http://rt.com/usa/hacker-pacemaker-barnaby-jack-639/
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Publicerad den 26 juli 2013
Barnaby Jack, a hacker who was due to present his findings on the security vulnerabilities of implanted medical devices, has died.Publicerad den 26 juli 2013
The San Francisco medical examiner's office said Jack, 35, died in the city on Thursday -- but did not provide details on the circumstances surrounding his death.
Jack had exposed a security flaw in insulin pumps that could be made to dispense a fatal dose by a hacker 300ft away, pushing some medical companies to review the security of these devices.
He was also a popular and respected figure in the information security scene. Within that small scene, reverse engineers are especially close, said Matthieu Suiche, a friend of Jack's and chief scientist at CloudVolumes Inc in an email. "We pretty much all know each other, or have lots of common friends," Suiche said. "It's almost like we all grew up together."
He added: "There isn't much to say except that Barnaby was one of the rare people in InfoSec who was a brilliant researcher but also a good friend to many of us."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbhF7AatgKs
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Hackare kan ta kontroll över medicinsk utrustning och döda patienter
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Publicerad den 27 juli 2013
Guilt by association for journalist who interviewed Al Qaeda, death by hacking medical devices and closing arguments in the Bradley Manning case.Publicerad den 27 juli 2013
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Enligt forskaren Barnaby Jack ska det gå att hacka en människas pacemaker genom WiFi. Apparaten ska då avge en stöt så stark att den kan döda sin bärare. Tyvärr hann aldrig Barnaby Jack demonstera sitt hack på Black hat-mässan i Las Vegas eftersom han avled strax före.
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/it_telekom/allmant/article3738754.ece
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Publicerad den 29 juli 2013
In today's video, AMTV investigates the possibility that elite programmer Barnaby Jack was murdered by the NSA. Jack was expected to reveal breaking new technology this week at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas Nevada that would highlight a security breach in millions of pacemakers and insulin pumps worn by people around the world. We therefore ask the question, "Who had the most to gain by the elimination of Barnaby Jack?"Publicerad den 29 juli 2013
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Publicerad den 30 juli 2013
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