Re:Hackers hit French national blood bank
by rkozik1989 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:44AM
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So I worked for a company who's product was sensor networks for this exact situation, and the European company who bought us had a cloud-only solution they wanted to replace our on-premise product with. Thankfully most hospitals and research institutions in the states are smart enough to reject cloud-based solutions for this exact reason. In theory you could penetrate our systems but it would have to be a very direct, specific attack to be able to do it. My colleague in Germany has been an SWE contractor since 1978 and is genuinely the best engineer I've ever worked with. No matter how off the wall my ideas were he'd already considered it and eliminated it as an option.
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Re:Hackers hit French national blood bank
by esseph on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:00AM
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Re:Hackers hit French national blood bank
by ocschwar on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:54PM
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And hooking systems into the cloud over the WAN helps them how?
Re:Hackers hit French national blood bank
by eastbound on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:07PM
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We're expert of the EU MDR, the "new" medical device regulation, and there are many Cloud services trying to seduce customers. But clearly no-one wants to have their software online: Medical industry is crossing the chasm when they can control when their Cloud software is upgraded, but the aerospace is a hard no and the ISO 26252 field (automotive) is even worse. With AI and Trump, it gives them reason.
The Cloud thing is completely driven by software companies, not by their customers. I'm really surprised that we did succeed at forcefully moving unwilling customers to the Cloud, it really doesn't answer their needs.