Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool

Re:Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hack... by djsumdog on Friday May 12, 2017 @05:28PM (#14328094)

I agree. A mission critical MRI machine should not be running an off the shelf OS (Win, Mac, Linux). If you're paying $5 million for a machine, it better have its own real time operating system that had been independently audited.

Now the machine that you pull up the images on is most likely going to be a general purpose PC/Mac. You still need to patch that. Your IT dept needs to have patch cycles that deploy in sets, so all mission critical equipment can be tested before everything gets patched. It takes diligence, and planning. If you prepare at a very large hospital with two MRI machines, then a bad patch can leave you degraded, but not totally offline.

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Re:Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hack... by toyg on Friday May 12, 2017 @06:18PM (#14328369)

Custom operating systems would require higher development costs and extremely rare sysadmin skills, which would mean larger hospital budgets, which would mean higher taxes or premiums.

Yeah, not gonna happen.

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