Insulin pump hacker gets federal attention as Reps ask for GAO investigation

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.massdevice.com/news/insulin-pump-hacker-gets-federal-attention-reps-ask-gao-investigation

By MassDevice staff
August 18, 2011

Reps Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) ask the Government 
Accountability Office to look into medical device security in response 
to the DefCon report from an insulin pump hacker.

The recent report of an computer security expert who hacked his own 
insulin pump got the attention of members of the House Energy & Commerce 
Committee.

This week senior committee members Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Edward Markey 
(D-MA) urged the Government Accountability Office to investigate the 
safety and security of wireless medical devices, citing an article 
written about the pump hack.

"My initial reaction was that this was really cool from a technical 
perspective," security expert and hacker Jay Radcliffe told the 
Associated Press. "The second reaction was one of maybe sheer terror, to 
know that there's no security around the devices which are a very active 
part of keeping me alive."

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