concerning the internet of things. IoT also comprises of items which directly can affect a persons well-being and health. For instance many medical devices, such as pacemakers, which maintain an adequate heart 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.
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