ATMs At a
Black Hat conference in 2010, Jack gave a
presentation on "jackpotting", or causing
automated teller machines to dispense
cash without withdrawing it from a
bank account using a
bank card. The scenario was first described in fiction in the 1995
cult movie
Hackers. Jack gave demonstrations of different kinds of
attacks involving both
physical access to the machines and completely automated remote attacks. In both cases, malware was injected into the operating system of the machines, causing them to dispense currency fraudulently on the attacker's command. During the physical attack on an
automated teller machine (ATM) as demonstrated by Jack, the attacker takes advantage of their physical access to the target machine and uses a flash drive loaded with malware to gain unauthorised access to the machines allowing control over their currency dispensing mechanism. During the remote attack,
malware is installed onto the target system via exploited vulnerabilities in the
remote management system, most notably the use of default passwords and remote management
TCP ports. The attacker then executes the malware, causing the target ATM to dispense currency.
Medical equipment At the McAfee FOCUS 11 conference in October 2011 in
Las Vegas, while working for
McAfee Security, Jack first demonstrated the wireless hacking of insulin pumps, one worn by a diabetic friend and another of the same model on a bench set up for demonstration. Interfacing with the pumps with a high-gain antenna, he obtained complete control of the pumps without any prior knowledge of their serial numbers, up to being able to cause the demonstration pump to repeatedly deliver its maximum dose of 25 units until its entire reservoir of 300 units was depleted, amounting to many times a lethal dose if delivered to a typical patient.{{cite web At the RSA Security Conference in
San Francisco in February 2012, using a transparent mannequin he demonstrated that he could wirelessly hack the insulin pump from a distance of up to 90 metres using the high-gain antenna.{{cite web In 2012, Jack demonstrated the ability to assassinate a victim by hacking their
pacemaker. Jack demonstrated delivering such a deadly electric shock live at the 2012 BreakPoint security conference in Melbourne. Jack died a week before he was to give a presentation on hacking heart implants at the
Black Hat 2013 conference scheduled to be held in
Las Vegas. In a June 2013 interview with Vice, Jack outlined his presentation:{{cite web ==Death==