Securing Wireless Neurostimulators

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: bill manning <azuremesa () gmail com>
> Date: April 17, 2018 at 7:17:38 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com
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> for IP if you wish.
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> Securing Wireless Neurostimulators
> Implantable medical devices (IMDs) typically rely on proprietary protocols to wirelessly communicate with external 
> device program- mers. In this paper, we fully reverse engineer the proprietary pro- tocol between a device programmer 
> and a widely used commercial neurostimulator from one of the leading IMD manufacturers. For the reverse engineering, 
> we follow a black-box approach and use in- expensive hardware equipment. We document the message format and the 
> protocol state-machine, and show that the transmissions sent over the air are neither encrypted nor authenticated. 
> Further- more, we conduct several software radio-based attacks that could compromise the safety and privacy of 
> patients, and investigate the feasibility of performing these attacks in real scenarios.
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> https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/publications/article-2803.pdf
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> > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> > I subbed you as
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> > azuremesa () gmail com
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> > > On Apr 11, 2018, at 11:42 PM, bill manning <azuremesa () gmail com> wrote:
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> > >
> > > Good evening Dave.  This is Bill Manning, used to be at ISI.  Worked for Jon, worked with Joe Touch and did my Phd 
> > > under Jun and Rod VanMeter.
> > >
> > > I understand IP is hosted on listbox these days. How do I re-subscribe?
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> > > /Wm
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