![]() ![]() ![]() It is up to the manufacturers themselves to verify the extent to which they are affected.Įrika Winkels, a spokesperson for Medtronic, a Minneapolis-based medical device maker, said some of the company’s pacemakers and parts of glucose-monitoring systems are affected by the vulnerability. How many medical device manufacturers, which use the vulnerable microchips, are implicated remains to be seen. There have not been any reports of malicious exploitation or patient harm related to the vulnerabilities. The FDA advised medical device manufacturers to work with health care providers, patients, and facilities to figure out which devices are affected and “to ensure that risks are reduced to acceptable levels.” The set of flaws in a popular wireless protocol known as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), which impact microchipped devices in a range of industries, could allow a hacker within radio range of a device to disrupt its communications, forcing it to restart. Pacemakers and glucose-monitoring systems are among the critical medical equipment that could be affected by new security vulnerabilities in wireless technology, the Food and Drug Administration and Department of Homeland Security warned this week. ![]()
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