Unauthorized Access Vulnerability in Various Abbott Laboratories Pacemaker Products

Accent, Anthem, Accent MRI, Assurity, Allure and Assurity MRI are implantable medical devices from Abbott Laboratories USA. An unauthorized access vulnerability exists in several Abbott Laboratories pacemaker products, where pacemaker authentication algorithms involving authentication keys and...

CVE-2013-0281

Pacemaker 1.1.10, when remote Cluster Information Base CIB configuration or resource management is enabled, does not limit the duration of connections to the blocking sockets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service connection blocking...

Medical Device Security in Need of Major Upgrade

Security researchers and hackers have spent the last 20 years or so tearing apart all manner of software and hardware, looking for vulnerabilities, attack vectors and bugs, and the advent of embedded and implantable devices has now drawn their attention to this new class of targets. Medical...