Implantable Medical Devices - keeping them safe from Hackers, also Facebook will be taken over by the Dead in 50 years!

The future of cybersecurity: Your body as a hacker-proof network

Could a 'body area network' be the key to keeping medical devices safe or transferring data between individuals?

Modern medicine is making use of the internet with more devices having internet connectivity.  Insulin pumps, pacemakers, and more implantable devices are being fitted with wireless internet connectivity that allows doctors to monitor your health remotely.

The issue with being connected to the internet is that the devices can be hacked.  Already proof of concept attacks has illustrated the risk exists.  Fortunately, there have been no attacks so far but cybercriminals have demonstrated a lack of morality and tampering with these devices will no doubt happen.  In the past, they have extorted hospitals putting patients at risk.

The wireless technology used to share data can be read many feet away.  Recently implantable defibrillators were given a severity rating of 9.3 out of 10 for a flaw that allowed them to be hacked 20 feet away by the Department of Homeland security.

Scary stuff but new research using the human body as the signal carrier restricts the signal to a few centimeters outside the patient.  Researchers at Purdue University have created Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication (EQS-HBC) which uses low-frequency, carrier-less broadband transmission.

To read the full article click on the link below.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-future-of-cyber-security-your-body-as-a-hacker-proof-network/?ftag=TRE49e8aa0&bhid=27630927001468733386426006914379

The dead will take over Facebook in the next 50 years
Analysis suggests that the deceased will soon outnumber the living on the network.

and I thought it was me the reason no one responded to my posts.  :-)

A time is coming in which you may see more memorial accounts on Facebook than active users, with academics estimating that accounts belonging to the deceased will outnumber the living within 50 years.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-dead-will-take-over-facebook-in-the-next-50-years/?ftag=TRE-03-10aaa6b&bhid=2219791