CSE News and Announcements

May 17, 2013
Security Risks Found in Sensors for Heart Devices, Consumer Electronics    Bookmark and Share
1970.jpgAn international team of researchers including Prof. Kevin Fu has demonstrated that the type of sensors that pick up the rhythm of a beating heart in implanted cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers are vulnerable to tampering. The researchers were able to forge an erratic heartbeat with radio frequency electromagnetic waves in controlled laboratory conditions.   [More Info]

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