Medical Device Forensics or How to Foil the Perfect Murder

If your pacemaker or defibrillator, two wirelessly operated medical implants should be tampered with to cause your demise, might you be considered hacked to death? Although there has never been a proven instance of what would obviously be the perfect murder, it is possible because these devices have no safeguards against hacking and are vulnerable to just such a scenario. I’m not talking about something out of a Stephen King novel, here either, it could happen and cyber-hacking of medical devices with intent to harm is enough of a credible threat to have come under the scrutiny of the government. The good thing is that the medical device manufacturers are now working hard behind the scenes to stop this possibility from happening. This includes creating changes in the software on new devices that in a post mortem, will automatically look at the logs to see if the device carried out a series of actions that suggest a lethal attack. The existing devices will need some kind of software patch to accomplish the same thing. The thing to note here (to me anyway) seems to be that making the devices unhackable doesn't appear to be an option but at least one can feel better assured knowing that forensic medicine specialists, working with their colleagues in digital security, are working on software that would prove a lethal implant hack has been carried out and foil the perfect murder.