McAfee researchers falsify a patient’s vital signs in real-time

McAfee’s security researchers announced at the Defcon hacker event in Las Vegas this week that they were able to hack into a medical network and falsify a patient’s vital signs. Exposing this weakness is the first step in fixing security for the networking protocol used by medical devices, known as RWHAT. But it’s certainly scary […]

Data mining astronomical records fails to falsify Einstein

Enlarge / The orbits of stars and gas around the Milky Way’s black hole. (credit: M. Schartmann and L. Calcada/ European Southern Observatory and Max-Planck-Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik.) Testing general relativity is a fraught business. The theory has proven to be so robust that anyone who thinks it’s wrong gets slapped around by reality in […]