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Turns out former Vice President (and erratic shooter) Dick Cheney was right all along: Your heart can be hacked. At least if you have a pacemaker, that is. On Tuesday, the FDA recalled 465,000 of the medical devices -- the ones that help control your heart beat -- citing security vulnerabilities. The pacemakers, which come from health company Abbott (formerly St. Jude Medical), require a firmware update. Fortunately, it can be installed by a health care provider in just three minutes. 
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Praetorian tracking all IoT devices in Austin, Texas running on ZigBee protocol, similar to the Shodan scanner.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A project has been devised to map all internet of things devices in the Austin Texas area, and identify vulnerabilities. Cool demonstrations of what you can do with a drone and some technology skills. See the full map here: https://www.praetorian.com/iotmap/ WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT? There will be 9B IoT devices soon and many more in the future. Great opportunities but it needs to be safe and private.
Tracy Harding's comment,
September 1, 2015 9:19 AM
You need to work on formatting of your replies. This is one giant sentence. Remember the requirements. You need a 2-3 sentence summary, at least 1 sentence of IR implications and 1 sentence about your thoughts.
Farid Mheir's comment,
September 1, 2015 9:23 AM
@Tracy Harding: not sure I understand your comment re: formatting. Can you be more specific and email me a screengrab? thank you!
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Tesla and GM have both issued fire-related recalls, but Tesla’s fix doesn’t require owners to bring their cars in.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Benefits of having an Internet connected device - here a car - is that it can be remotely updated to fix issues or tune performance. Convenience and fast improvements. Remember that this means it can also be remotely monitored, both for good and bad reasons, which may also raise security and privacy concerns.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT
Was just a question of time before it happened. Everything is connected and the trend is clear that nothing will escape the insertion of software into all kinds of devices. You have to know which ones are safe and which ones are not.