Medical device hacking and the vulnerability of connected medical devices

Kim Komando Today

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

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4.8 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Hacked medical devices are quickly becoming a top security threat. From pacemakers to hospital equipment, anything that connects wirelessly can be compromised. In this episode of Komando on Demand, Kim looks into the myths and realities of medical device hacking and security. Kim talks to Christian Espinosa, a cybersecurity professor at Maryville University and CEO of Alpine Security, about medical device security and what's being done to make devices and hospitals more secure.

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0:00.0	So this is Bo. He's been having chest pain in her minute for about the last week.
0:05.0	All right. Let's give him 20 cardism.
0:07.1	All right. We're going to be giving you some medicine continuously through your IV.
0:10.0	Okay. We should really get you feeling better.
0:11.5	Okay. How are you feeling, sir? Getting really lightheaded.
0:15.1	Can you open your eyes, sir?
0:16.4	Sir.
0:17.6	I don't have a pulse. You don't feel a pulse?
0:19.0	I don't feel a pulse. I don't have a pulse. You don't feel a pulse? I don't feel a pulse. I don't feel a pulse.
0:21.6	Okay, all right.
0:22.6	Can we start CPR?
0:23.6	We were treating a patient for a fib and we used Cardizm and all of a sudden the entire bag emptied.
0:30.6	And he went hypotense of Radicardic and then he coded.
0:33.6	What happened in that reenactment? Why did the patient than you coded.
0:40.5	What happened in that reenactment?
0:42.9	Why did the patient die so suddenly?
0:47.7	A man by the name of Barnaby Jack, well, he knew exactly why.
0:52.2	From 100 meters away, I can scan for any insulin pumps in the vicinity.
0:54.3	I will return those insulin pump IDs,
1:01.0	and then I can have them dispense their entire 300 units of insulin, which for a type 1 diabetic will easily prove fatal unless you seek immediate medical attention.
1:05.5	You see, Barnaby Jack has discovered all kinds of ways to hack into medical devices,
1:10.6	and he exposed the weakness of every single one he found.
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