Biohacking Village·51 min
Mitchell Parker
Convenes health system leaders and security professionals to discuss advancing cybersecurity across medical device ecosystems.
DEF CON Safe Mode/Biohacking Village across years
Virtual (Discord and Twitch) · 6-9 August 2020 · 28 talks
Biohacking Village focuses on healthcare cybersecurity, medical device security, patient safety, and open-source biotechnology. Talks examine vulnerabilities in connected clinical systems, molecular tagging, DIY biology, and collaborative disclosure between researchers and medical device manufacturers.
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Biohacking Village·51 min
Mitchell Parker
Convenes health system leaders and security professionals to discuss advancing cybersecurity across medical device ecosystems.
Biohacking Village·1 hr 29 min
Nina Alli
Biohacking Village Executive Director Nina Alli interviews clinical professionals, patients, and hackers on the future of healthcare security.
Biohacking Village·29 min
Bill Hagestad
Examines military research facilities and biosecurity threat capabilities in the People's Republic of China.
Biohacking Village·26 min
Meg Doerr
Presents a clinical framework for cybersecurity informed consent to communicate device vulnerability risks to patients.
Biohacking Village·44 min
Dina Truxius · Julian Suleder · Michael Shannon
Explores patient-led innovation, closed-loop artificial pancreas systems, and cybersecurity challenges in diabetes management.
Biohacking Village·30 min
Michelle Holko
Explores digital health data collection and privacy considerations within the NIH All of Us Research Program.
Biohacking Village·27 min
Mo Ali · Amy Abernethy
FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner Amy Abernethy discusses medical device cybersecurity, big data, and regulatory collaboration.
Biohacking Village·39 min
Anthony DiFranco
Examines the Open Insulin project's community protocols and open-source hardware designed to produce accessible, low-cost insulin.
Biohacking Village·44 min
Christian Dameff · Jeff Tully
Physician-hackers Christian Dameff and Jeff Tully share lessons from treating COVID-19 patients to reframe clinical cyber disaster preparedness.
Biohacking Village·1 hr 16 min
Security researchers and medical device manufacturers share insights on coordinated vulnerability disclosure and addressing legacy devices.
Biohacking Village·23 min
Jack Twiddy
Demonstrates techniques for culturing biological neural networks and interfacing biological neurons with computational hardware.
Biohacking Village·56 min
Curry · Dougherty
Introduces the INCLUDES NO DIRT threat modeling methodology developed at Omada Health to integrate privacy, security, and compliance.
Biohacking Village·18 min
Andrea Downing
Applies cybersecurity threat modeling to health misinformation, medical disinformation campaigns, and patient vulnerability.
Biohacking Village·14 min
Sarah Blossom
Examines ethical review standards and institutional review boards adapted for independent biohackers and community labs.
Biohacking Village·28 min
Mixæl Laufer
Discusses Four Thieves Vinegar Collective protocols for decentralized, open-source automated pharmaceutical synthesis.
Biohacking Village·28 min
Veronica Schmitt
Explores pragmatic strategies for securing medical technologies, improving device forensics, and remediating clinical vulnerabilities.
Biohacking Village·37 min
Bryson Bort
Analyzes industrial control and embedded medical device architectures within hospital clinical networks.
Biohacking Village·31 min
Sam Cervantes
Presents an open-source hardware and software telemetry platform designed to monitor emergency hospital ventilators remotely.
Biohacking Village·31 min
Sam Cervantes
Details the development, acoustic alarm monitoring features, and clinical lab testing of the Open Ventilator Remote Monitoring Project.
Biohacking Village·21 min
Katie Doroschak
Presents Porcupine, a molecular tagging system that uses synthetic DNA strands and portable nanopore sequencers for rapid physical object tagging.
Biohacking Village·31 min
Dena Mendelsohn · Jen Goldsack
Advocates expanding traditional patient safety definitions to incorporate cybersecurity risks, digital footprints, and data rights.
Biohacking Village·40 min
Khatuna Mshvidobadze
Surveys Russian state-sponsored cyber operations targeting universities, hospitals, and medical research facilities during the pandemic.
Biohacking Village·1 hr 47 min
Negre · McMahon
Provides practical, cost-effective strategies for hospitals and clinical engineering teams to harden legacy medical devices.
Biohacking Village·11 min
Vidya Murthy
Analyzes systemic risks posed by software and hardware homogeneity across hospital medical device fleets.