Why Medical Data Is Vulnerable and Valuable to Cybercriminals
Pragati Verma
In an episode of the Showtime thriller Homeland, terrorists used wireless connectivity to remotely disable the vice president’s defibrillator and induce a heart attack. The scenario might not be as far-fetched as it seems; former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, for one, considers it a likely enough scenario that he wears a pacemaker modified to deactivate wireless connectivity.
