Medical Device Security Center

A cross-disciplinary research initiative on medical device security, privacy, safety, and effectiveness

Publications
They Can Hear Your Heartbeats: Non-Invasive Security for Implanted Medical Devices<
They Can Hear Your Heartbeats: Non-Invasive Security for Implanted Medical Devices

Shyamnath Gollakota, Haitham Hassanieh, Benjamin Ransford, Dina Katabi, Kevin Fu
In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM. August 2011.

Additional information: PDF, IMD Shield

Take two software updates and see me in the morning: The Case for Software Security Evaluations of Medical Devices
Take two software updates and see me in the morning: The Case for Software Security Evaluations of Medical Devices

Steve Hanna, Rolf Rolles, Andres Molina-Markham, Pongsin Poosankam, Kevin Fu, Dawn Song
In Proceedings of 2nd USENIX Workshop on Health Security and Privacy (HealthSec). August 2011.

Additional information: PDF

Software issues for the medical device approval process
Software issues for the medical device approval process

Kevin Fu
Statement to the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Hearing on a delicate balance: FDA and the reform of the medical device approval process, Wednesday, April 13, 2011.

Additional information: PDF

Trustworthy medical device software
Trustworthy medical device software

Kevin Fu
In Public Health Effectiveness of the FDA 510(k) Clearance Process: Measuring Postmarket Performance and Other Select Topics: Workshop Report, Washington, DC, IOM (Institute of Medicine), National Academies Press, 2011

Additional information: PDF, video, workshop, slides

Patients, pacemakers, and implantable defibrillators: Human values and security for wireless implantable medical devices
Patients, pacemakers, and implantable defibrillators: Human values and security for wireless implantable medical devices

Tamara Denning, Alan Borning, Batya Friedman, Brian T. Gill, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel
28th Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2010

Additional information: PDF of paper

Improving the security and privacy of implantable medical devices
Improving the security and privacy of implantable medical devices

William H. Maisel and Tadayoshi Kohno
New England Journal of Medicine, April 2010

Additional information: NEJM link

Clinically significant magnetic interference of implanted cardiac devices by portable headphones
Clinically significant magnetic interference of implanted cardiac devices by portable headphones

Sinjin Lee, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, Benjamin Ransford, and William H. Maisel
Heart Rhythm, October 2009

Additional information: PDF of paper

Neurosecurity: Security and Privacy for Neural Devices
Neurosecurity: Security and Privacy for Neural Devices

Tamara Denning, Yoki Matsuoka, and Tadayoshi Kohno
Neurosurgical Focus, July 2009

Additional information: Abstract; PDF of paper

Inside risks, reducing the risks of implantable medical devices: A prescription to improve security and privacy of pervasive health care
Inside risks, reducing the risks of implantable medical devices: A prescription to improve security and privacy of pervasive health care

Kevin Fu
Communications of the ACM, 52(6):25--27, June 2009

Additional information: Abstract; PDF of paper; HTML

Privacy of home telemedicine: Encryption is not enough (poster)
Privacy of home telemedicine: Encryption is not enough (poster)

Mastooreh Salajegheh, Andrew Molina, and Kevin Fu
Design of Medical Devices Conference, April 2009

Additional information: PDF of poster abstract

Electromagnetic interference (EMI) of implanted cardiac devices by MP3 player headphones
Electromagnetic interference (EMI) of implanted cardiac devices by MP3 player headphones

Sinjin Lee, Benjamin Ransford, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel
Circulation, 118(18 Supplement), Novermber 2008
Abstract 662, 2008 American Heart Association Annual Scientific Sessions

Additional information: Abstract; Video

Absence makes the heart grow fonder: New directions for implantable medical device security
Absence makes the heart grow fonder: New directions for implantable medical device security

Tamara Denning, Kevin Fu, and Tadayoshi Kohno
USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), July 2008

Additional information: PDF of paper; Talk Slides

Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses
Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses

Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Benjamin Ransford, Shane S. Clark, Benessa Defend, Will Morgan, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2008

Additional information: Frequently asked questions (FAQ); PDF of paper

Security and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices
Security and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices

Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel
IEEE Pervasive Computing, January 2008

Additional information: PDF of paper

Devices That Tell On You: Privacy Trends in Consumer Ubiquitous Computing
Devices That Tell On You: Privacy Trends in Consumer Ubiquitous Computing

T. Scott Saponas, Jonathan Lester, Carl Hartung, Sameer Agarwal, and Tadayoshi Kohno
Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, August 2007

Additional information: Online here
Oakland 2008: oscilloscope and other tools
Secure Software Updates: Disappointments and New Challenges

Anthony Bellissimo, John Burgess, and Kevin Fu
Proceedings of USENIX Hot Topics in Security, July 2006

Additional information: PDF, slides, conference, video