It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment

Re:It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment by yitchelle on Friday May 02, 2014 @06:59AM (#7684987)

This kind of problems is going to be more prominent as "Internet of Things" starts to take off. I was rather concern about Nest, our cars, Fridges etc being connected to the Internet and, on some devices, the security is quite low. This article is shows an example of it.

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Re:It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment by commandar on Friday May 02, 2014 @01:51PM (#7687087)

This is one of the reasons why, as a rule, biomed devices that directly interact with a patient are never connected to the public internet.

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Re:It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment by TheLoneWolfling on Saturday May 03, 2014 @06:09AM (#7690231)

Which works until one of the devices networked with said biomed device uses a wireless link and someone brings in a cell phone.

Airgaps are really hard to do correctly, as they have so many single points of failure.

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