Abbott has released a software security update to protect its cardiac pacemakers from hacking. The firmware update is intended to fix a cybersecurity weakness that allowed hackers to affect the ...

Abbott Laboratories released new software updates designed to protect hundreds of thousands of implanted pacemakers from external hacking that could harm heart patients and to guard against dangerous ...

A new software patch to fix a cybersecurity weakness in hundreds of thousands of implanted heart devices has raised a dilemma among doctors and patients: Is the fix worth the risk?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electrocardiograms, or ECGs, record the electrical activity of your heart. Randy Faris/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your ...

October 17, 2006 — A bug in software used to program several models of St. Jude Medical pacemakers can cause inaccurate reporting of remaining battery life, the company has warned in a letter to ...