Name: All your devices can be hacked
Uploaded: 2012-02-25T16:49:20Z
Duration: 16 min 39 s
Description: Could someone hack your pacemaker? Avi Rubin shows how hackers are compromising cars, smartphones and medical devices, and warns us about the dangers of an increasingly hack-able world.

Avi Rubin: All your devices can be hacked

All your devices can be hacked

Could someone hack your pacemaker? Avi Rubin shows how hackers are compromising cars, smartphones and medical devices, and warns us about the dangers of an increasingly hack-able world.

Technology now connects everything from cars to pacemakers, but these advances come with hidden risks. Researchers have wirelessly hacked defibrillators using homemade equipment and remotely taken control of cars, even disabling brakes and tracking locations. Even simple actions, like typing on a smartphone, can be spied on using reflections or sensors. Fast adoption of new gadgets often leaves security as an afterthought, putting critical systems and private lives at risk.