Abbott Releases Cyber Updates For St. Jude Medical Devices After Government Probe

Abbott Laboratories is releasing cyber security updates for its St. Jude heart devices, it said on Monday, some five months after the U.S. government launched a probe into claims they were vulnerable to potentially life-threatening hacks.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) said the fix does not address all known problems affecting the company’s implanted heart devices.

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