| Title | Hacking Your Hospital | |
| Date | Saturday November 19 2016, @05:33AM | |
| Author | caffeine | |
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| from the they-reprogrammed-my-defibrillator-to-do-the-macarena dept. | ||
When security researcher Scott Erven was given free rein to roam through all of the medical equipment used at a large chain of health care facilities, he knew he would find security problems; but he wasn't prepared for just how bad it would be. From article by Kim Zetter at Wired
Erven and his team discovered that hospitals are full of fundamentally insecure devices. The insecurities are not the result of obscure bugs buried deep in their code base, but rather they were incredibly stupid, incredibly easy to discover mistakes, such as hard coded easy default passwords.
Can you really trust the personnel in the hospital to keep you alive when the equipment can be so quickly abused?
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