{"id":5747,"date":"2018-10-17T14:50:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T18:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=5747"},"modified":"2018-10-17T14:50:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T18:50:57","slug":"the-cybersecurity-202-the-fda-is-embracing-ethical-hackers-in-its-push-to-secure-medical-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/10\/17\/the-cybersecurity-202-the-fda-is-embracing-ethical-hackers-in-its-push-to-secure-medical-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cybersecurity 202: The FDA is embracing ethical hackers in its push to secure medical devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently attacks against medical devices are on the rise and the FDA is turning to ethical hackers. This is something I&#8217;ve thought about before. I don&#8217;t know much about medical devices, but I&#8217;ve always wondered what would happen if a hacker could somehow force a new pacemaker to segfault or something along those lines. This should be a very good measure to take in the FDA approval process because it will hold developers of these medical devices to a higher security standard. Although, I welcome input from anyone in the medical device field who has some experience in this area.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/paloma\/the-cybersecurity-202\/2018\/10\/17\/the-cybersecurity-202-the-fda-is-embracing-ethical-hackers-in-its-push-to-secure-medical-devices\/5bc6156b1b326b7c8a8d1a01\/?utm_term=.8f2d100fa6fb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently attacks against medical devices are on the rise and the FDA is turning to ethical hackers. This is something I&#8217;ve thought about before. I don&#8217;t know much about medical devices, but I&#8217;ve always wondered what would happen if a hacker could somehow force a new pacemaker to segfault or something along those lines. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[716352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-07-policy-documents-video","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5748,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions\/5748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}