Hernández reads brain waves with hacking in hospital kits

Alejandro Hernández: Let's talk about the future.  they can already mediate between brain waves and hospital kits, and it's only going to get a lot worse in the future, according to IOActive senior consultant Alejandro Hernández.Alejandro Hernandez

Hernández reports that the ability to steal, manipulate and reproduce brainwaves from an EEG is already feasible, since hospital kits available on the market can be hacked by hackers, and the health care industry is not taking any precautions to protect of the waves of the brain.

After decades in laboratories and hospitals, brainstorms are firmly implemented by devices that have so far remained largely experimental.

In a clinical setting, EEG recorders are a useful tool for the diagnosis of seizures and sleep disorders such as narcolepsy.

Researchers still believe they are able to record brain waves and have the ability to send signals, creating brain-to-brain connections. In this way they have made conscious thoughts transmitted over the internet to be unconsciously executed by another person or to fly unmanned aircraft without a remote control.

Hernández, however, says that man-in-the-middle attacks are possible, something he tried in his own brain waves.

Hernández claims there are dangerous vulnerabilities in devices used in hospitals that allow man-in-the-middle and denial-of-service attacks.

The researcher demonstrated this at last week's BruCon conference a live man-in-the-middle attack on his own brain signals using the very widely used open-source EEG NeuroServer

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