Misusing and Abusing the IoT ( Ingliskeelne referaat andmeturve ITX0040 jaoks)
rate of a patient or insulin pumps, which administer doses of insulin to the
patient in treating diabetes, could be possibly abused by a third party in
order to kill or seriously compromise the health of the individual using
those devices. According to researchers Billy Rios and Terry McCorkle in
2013, there are roughly 300 such medical devices which are exploitable
[9]. In 2007, the doctors of Dick Cheney, the vice president of USA at that
time, ordered the defribillator manufacturers to disable the wireless
feature in the vice presidents defribillator, in fears that somebody could
hack it [10]. This suggests that in the future, aswell is in the present, the
cyberattacks not only will be virtual threats, but will directly turn into a
physical threat to the human life.
Reasons behind security related shortages
This raises the question of how come the internet of things is left quite
unsecure and open for manipulation which can cause not only virtual