Press - Tamara Bonaci

Here is a selection of recent press coverage of my current research projects, Privacy and Security by Design in BCIs and Secure Telerobotics.

D. Goodin, Ars Technica, In Not-Too-Distant Future, Brain Hackers Could Steal Your Deepest Secrets, January 2017.
L. Vass, Naked Security by Sophos, How Hacking Brainwaves Could Reveal Our Deeply Guarded Secrets, August 2016.

V. Turk, VICE Motherboard, How Hackers Could Get Inside Your Head With Brain Malware, August 2016.

V. Turk, VICE Motherboard, We Tried To Operate A Surgical Robot While It Was Being Hacked, July 2016.

I. Mester, Engineering.com, Engineers Hijack Teleoperated Robots, May 2015.

J. Langston, UW Today, UW Researchers Hack a Teleoperated Surgical Robot to Reveal Security Flaws, May 2015.

S. Gallagher, Ars Technica, Researchers Craft Network Attacks to Hack Surgical Robots (Sort Of), May 2015.

S. Brownstone, The Stranger Blog, University of Washington Researchers Hack A Remotely Controlled Surgical Robot, Showing Us How Profoundly Vulnerable We Are, May 2015.

S. Hodsden, MED Device Online, Scientists Hack Teleoperated Surgical Robot to Expose Security Flaws, May 2015.

The Engineer, US Team Calls for Hack-Proof Robots, May 2015.

L. Vaas, Sophos Naked Security, Remotely Operated Surgery Robot Is Easy to E-Hijack, Researchers Find, April 2015.

S. Misra, iMedicalApps, Surgical Robots Hacked By Computer Science Experts, Not the Imminent Threat Being Implied in Media, April 2015.

D. Storm, ComputerWorld, Researchers Hijack Teleoperated Surgical Robot: Remote Surgery Hacking Threats, April 2015.

A. Ossola, Popular Science, Robots Used in Long-Distance Surgery Can Easily Be Hacked, April 2015.

R. Chirgwin, The Register, Surgery-bot Can be Hacker to Hack You To Pieces, April 2015.

J. O'Callaghan, Daily Mail, Hackers Can Take Over Medical Equipment: Security Experts Discover Telesurgery Robots Are At Risk From Cyber Attacks, April 2015.

The Security Ledger, Surgical Robots The Latest to Fall to Whitehats, April 2015.

K. Rommelfanger, Neuroethics Women Leaders, Meet-a-Member: Tamara Bonaci, March 2015.

The NSF Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, Young Scholars Program, November 2014.

M. Guiden, Researcher Tackles Online Security of Brain-Computer Interfaces, The NSF Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering "Engage and Enable" Blog, July 2014.

T. Bishop, GeekWire Radio: Brain-Computer Interfaces and the Future of Personal Privacy, July 2014.

The Dr. Katherine Albrecht Radio Show, June 2014.

Infinity Box Theatre Seattle, Thought Experiments on the Questions of Being Human: Prosthetics and Neural Engineering ("Truth and Lies", original play based on our research project, written by R. Tang and directed by S. Porkalob), June 2014.

M. Kaste, Think Internet Data Mining Goes Too Far? Then You Won't Like This, NPR All Things Considered, May 2014.

E. McReynolds, Spotlight on Tech Policy Lab Scholar Tamara Bonaci, Tech Policy Lab Blog, February 2014.