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Attacking and Defending a Diabetes Therapy System

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Wearable and implantable medical devices are being increasingly deployed to improve diagnosis, monitoring, and therapy for a range of medical conditions.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation in part under Grant NSF CNS-0914787 and in part under CNS-1219570.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

    Chunxiao Li, Meng Zhang & Niraj K. Jha

  2. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, US

    Anand Raghunathan

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Li, C., Zhang, M., Raghunathan, A., Jha, N.K. (2014). Attacking and Defending a Diabetes Therapy System. In: Burleson, W., Carrara, S. (eds) Security and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1674-6_8

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