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high-gain antenna, he obtained complete control of the pumps without any prior knowledge of their serial numbers, up to being able to cause the demonstration pump to repeatedly deliver its maximum dose of 25 units until its entire reservoir of 300 units was depleted, amounting to many times a lethal dose if delivered to a typical patient.
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Jack was known among industry experts for his influence in the medical and financial security fields. In 2012 his testimony led the United States Food And Drug
Administration to change regulations regarding wireless medical devices. At the time of his death, Jack was Director of Embedded Device
345:. In this episode, the jackpotting technique is used to extract millions of dollars from ATMs in 28 countries - in just over two hours on 11th August 2018, nearly $ 14 million, all from accounts of The Cosmos Bank in India. An army of money mules is used to take the cash from the machines.
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At the McAfee FOCUS 11 conference in
October 2011 in Las Vegas, while working for McAfee Security, Jack first demonstrated the wireless hacking of insulin pumps, one worn by a diabetic friend and another of the same model on a bench set up for demonstration. Interfacing with the pumps with a
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Barnaby Jack's "Jackpotting" technique of an ATM and multiple ATMs being hacked and forced to spit out any amount of cash triggered by a number of events all described in Jack's 2010 Black Hat presentation, was used as the plot line in the 20th of
December 2015 episode of series 2 of the
200:(ATM) as demonstrated by Jack, the attacker takes advantage of their physical access to the target machine and uses a flash drive loaded with malware to gain unauthorised access to the machines allowing control over their currency dispensing mechanism. During the remote attack,
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to the machines and completely automated remote attacks. In both cases, malware was injected into the operating system of the machines, causing them to dispense currency fraudulently on the attacker's command. During the physical attack on an
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hacking conference in Las Vegas. Black Hat general manager Trey Ford, said "Everyone would agree that the life and work of
Barnaby Jack are legendary and irreplaceable", and announced his spot would not be replaced at the conference.
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In 2012 Jack demonstrated the ability to assassinate a victim by hacking their pacemaker. Jack demonstrated delivering such a deadly electric shock live at the 2012 BreakPoint security conference in
Melbourne.
334:. Apart from showing the hack in use and explaining how it works, the episode also included other nods to Barnaby Jack and his work including naming the hacked bank "Barnaby Bank". The
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Barnaby Jack, the director of embedded device security for computer security firm IOActive, developed software that allowed him to remotely send an electric shock to anyone wearing a
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