It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment

Re:It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment by Robin_Message on Friday May 02, 2014 @05:23AM (#7684733)

They also found surgery robots connected to internal networks. Although the robots generally have software firewalls to block connections to them, Erven and his team found that simply running an off-the-shelf vulnerability scanner against the firewall caused it to turn off and fail open.

Wow, just wow.

If someone ever hacks an active surgery robot it's going to be Saw meets Snow Crash, and not in a good way.

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Re:It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment by FLUX-YOU on Friday May 02, 2014 @08:15AM (#7685194)

And with some hospitals still running Win XP, it's easy to get a foothold on their network!

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Re:It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment by bcostlow on Saturday May 03, 2014 @07:38AM (#7690386)

I'm working in that space, and sampling from the ones I've dealt with, I'd replace some with most.

Some of the ones I deal with are also running those XPs with old IE versions, 6 & 7. This is because they bought, then never upgraded, systems that won't run right with newer browsers.

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