{"id":12397,"date":"2013-12-19T08:59:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T08:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12397"},"modified":"2013-12-19T08:59:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T08:59:31","slug":"coming-soon-murder-by-mouse-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12397","title":{"rendered":"Coming soon: Murder by mouse click"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12399\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/barnabyjack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12399\" alt=\"Barnaby Jack\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/barnabyjack-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/barnabyjack-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/barnabyjack-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/barnabyjack.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barnaby Jack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the US internet security industry, <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/hacker-pacemaker-barnaby-jack-639\/\">murder<\/a> committed by hacking into an internet-connected device is a real possibility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Internet Identity predicted murder by internet in a report last year, stating: &#8220;With so many devices being internet connected, it makes murder relatively simple, at least from a technical perspective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year&#8217;s report said that though there has yet to be a proved case of murder over the internet it might have happened and not been detected. It noted that former US vice-president Dick Cheney asked to have the wireless function of his pacemaker disabled to prevent it from being hacked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report said that, in June, the US Food and Drug Administration demanded that &#8220;the healthcare industry address vulnerabilities in internet-connected devices such as pacemakers, which could be hacked to send out lethal jolts of electricity, or insulin pumps, which can be reprogrammed to administer overdoses&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Internet Identity also foresaw an increase in cyber warfare and cyber espionage. It claimed, as have other industry security companies, that China has a secret military unit that electronically infiltrates the networks of businesses, media houses and governments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Security researcher Barnaby Jack died mysteriously in San Francisco earlier this year, only days before a scheduled appearance at a Las Vegas hacker conference where he intended to show how an ordinary pacemaker could be compromised in order to kill a man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In South Africa up to 80% of companies are not running the monitoring software that could show the extent of hacking and cyber espionage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the US internet security industry, murder committed by hacking into an internet-connected device is a real possibility. Internet Identity predicted murder by internet in a report last year, stating: &#8220;With so many devices being internet connected, it makes murder relatively simple, at least from a technical perspective.&#8221; This year&#8217;s report said that though &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12397\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coming soon: Murder by mouse click&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,86],"tags":[3614,7848,7849,7851,7850],"class_list":["post-12397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology","tag-hacking","tag-internet-murder","tag-internet-security-industry","tag-pacemaker","tag-us-vice-president-dick-cheney"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/barnabyjack.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12400,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12397\/revisions\/12400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}