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FDA Issues Warning on Medical Device Security Amid Hacker Threats

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Previously on Showtime This summer the FDA warned medical device makers about precisely this possibility. At a hacker conference last year, Barnaby Jack demonstrated how to take over an implantable insulin pump remotely and tell it to deliver a deadly dose. Earlier this year he claimed to have developed software that allowed him to send a fatal electric shock to anyone within 50 feet

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