The security expert Barnaby Jack died at the age of 35. He was involved in the Black Hat conference this week on piracy pacemakers.It is a blow to the community of security experts. Barnaby Jack was found dead in his apartment in San Francisco. The medical examiner's office confirmed the news to Reuters, but gave no indication of the cause of death. Aged 35, Barnaby Jack was director of security IOActive specialized safety of medical devices, logistics and industrial systems.Barnaby Jack is a former security researcher at McAfee and Juniper, but he is best known 3 years ago at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. During this event, he demonstrated to exploit vulnerabilities on ATMs and withdraw money without hack customer accounts. This procedure called "jackpotting ATM" was postponed by one year to allow time for manufacturers to fix the defects. Last October, at a conference in Melbourne, he still caught the imagination by showing the weaknesses of communications protocols pacemakers. This vulnerability could be exploited to cause a fatal electric shock. In his demonstration, he sent instructions to the pacemaker from a laptop 15 feet away to inflict a shock of 830 volts. While at McAfee, he had already warned of the risks of medical devices such as insulin pumps.The security specialist should take place at the next Black Hat conference on the topic "implantable medical devices: hack humans." He wanted to focus its new session on Exploit pacemakers at a greater distance about 100 meters. The conference organizers have lamented the death of Barnaby Jack and did not replace his intervention. "Everyone agrees that the life and work of Barnaby Jack are legendary and irreplaceable. He had the ability to take complex technology to analyze this complex and then make it available for everyone, "says the team at Black Hat. Therefore, it indicates that his intervention will give way to a commemoration of his life and his work.Many security experts have expressed their feelings on Twitter. Dave Marcus, chief architect of advanced research intelligent threats McAfee considers him "a fucking pirate." Jay Radcliffe, a security researcher at Ingardians marked "We do not see things the same way, but I'm sad to hear this news." Kevin Mitnick has posted "When I saw the tweets that indicated Barnaby Jack was dead, I thought it might be a hoax. Unfortunately, I learned that it was true. Grand hacker and friend. RIP. "Creat by MBARK TiéSTO
