company:medtronic

Scandale des implants : comment le leader des technologies médicales écarte les critiques à coups de millions
▻https://www.bastamag.net/Scandale-des-implants-comment-le-leader-des-technologies-medicales-ecarte-

Les « Implant Files », la nouvelle enquête journalistique internationale, dénoncent l’absence de contrôle des dispositifs comme les pacemakers, prothèses mammaires ou les capteurs de glycémie et les nombreux incidents médicaux qui en résultent. Derrière ce scandale, il y a les mêmes méthodes d’influence que celles dévoilées par nos « Pharma Papers » à propos des laboratoires pharmaceutiques : le leader mondial du secteur, Medtronic, a dépensé 25,4 millions d’euros au bénéfice des acteurs de la #Santé_en France (...)

#Décrypter

/ Santé , #Multinationales, #Menaces_sur_la_santé_publique

Hackable implanted medical devices could cause deaths, researchers say
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/09/implanted-medical-devices-hacking-risks-medtronic

Medtronic, a manufacturer of pacemakers and implantable insulin pumps, won’t fix security vulnerabilities in its products A range of implanted medical devices with nine newly discovered security vulnerabilities won’t be fixed by the manufacturer, despite the possibility that, if abused, the weaknesses could lead to injury or death. In new research presented at the Black Hat information security conference, a pair of security researchers remotely disabled an implantable insulin pump, (...)

#Medtronic #pacemaker #santé #hacking

##santé
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Is #Taiwan a Country? What About #Tibet? China Says They Aren’t—and Wants Foreign Companies to Fall in Line · Global Voices
▻https://globalvoices.org/2018/01/17/is-taiwan-a-country-what-about-tibet-china-says-they-arent-and-wants-f

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Despite what people may say, #Hong_Kong (#Hongkong), #Macau, Taiwan and Tibet are not countries. At least not in the eyes of mainland China.

This week, a smattering of multinational corporations publicly apologized for listing Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Tibet as countries on their websites, at the behest of Chinese authorities.

The wave of apologies from JW Marriott Hotels, Zara, Delta Airlines and Medtronic, among others, was sparked by a January 9 email questionnaire sent by Marriott to its Chinese members, in which the four territories were listed separately from China in one of the questions about residence.

#chine #territoires #différends_frontaliers #frontières

"Animas (Johnson & Johnson) OneTouch Ping" Insulin Pump Susceptible to Hacking

A person could potentially gain unauthorised access to the pump through its unencrypted radio frequency communication system.

Imagine these pumps as IoT device, and exploited by Mirai.

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▻http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83969.html

This isn’t the first time that a vulnerability has been found in an insulin pump. Five years ago, a proof-of-concept attack was demonstrated at the Hacker Halted conference in Miami on an insulin pump made by Medtronic.

#IoT

Early #heart #pacemakers used Pu-238 as power source. After 35 years some were still running well
▻http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc072143
#plutonium #énergie #energy #nucléaire #nuclear #médecine #health