Rapid7 hires Jay Radcliffe, diabetic who hacked his insulin pump

Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 said on Thursday that it has hired Jay Radcliffe, a diabetic researcher who is known for pioneering work in the field of medical security, including work hacking his own insulin pump. Radcliffe gained prominence in 2011 when he demonstrated a technique at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas for attacking the same Medtronic Inc insulin pump that he uses to deliver insulin to his body. Medtronic later that year hired security consultants to review the safety of its insulin pumps after a second research team found more vulnerabilities in the devices, which they said were also potentially lethal. Radcliffe most recently worked as a senior security analyst at InGuardians Inc. Prior to that, he spent more than a decade holding various posts at Internet Security Systems, which IBM bought in 2006.



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