Re:Patient Monitor Contec CMS8000 Contains a Backdoor
by numbsafari on Friday January 31, 2025 @11:33AM
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The inverse of “defense in depth” is “flooding the zone”.
Re:Patient Monitor Contec CMS8000 Contains a Backdoor
by M95D on Friday January 31, 2025 @04:18PM
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Can't gather data new data from the phone if that person is in a coma. But, hey, now the relatives can get coffin adverts before the doctor brings the bad news! /s
That backdoor, if it reports to a university, is probably put there to facilitate a study/diploma/phd or something like that.
It almost makes me wonder if there's a component in the hardware or software that's shared with other devices manufactured in China that are better attack vectors and they just tossed it into this one because, hey, it works.