Short Seller Takes on St. Jude Medical with Claim of Remote Exploit Risk

This is bananas. Justine Bone, fairly well known in vuln research circles as, among other things, the former CEO of Dave Aitel's Immunity, teamed up with a well-known hedge fund to publicize research into medical device security with the intent of generating product recalls and thwarting M&A, so that they could profit from trading against those companies.

B- A- N- A- nanas.

Bananas maybe. But if there's truth in the allegations - and I'd bet there is- then the net result will be an improvement in the security of the available devices, surely a good thing.

And a stinging reminder to these guys to take security goddamn seriously - as seriously as if lives were at stake. Which they are.

Who cares if some rich guys further enrich themselves in the process.

Not sure how I feel about this, seems rent-seeking. I also don't think it is going to work. But analyzing speculative big bets in the stock market is not something I can demonstrate any competency in.

I wonder if this will bump up security bug bounty payout averages...