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Weak default passwords on the web interface is just the icing on the cake, the low-hanging fruit. The entire networking stack is likely to be riddled with unpatched vulnerabilities for anyone to exploit.
Relative obscurity and physical security are probably the only things that stand between hospital equipment and certain disaster.
Worst case, these exploits will suddenly be used to disable or cripple hospitals in case of dirty wars and terrorist campaigns. If the latter is still a problem.
(Risk of being hacked) x (severity of being hacked) (Risk of being hacked): Small.
(Severity of being hacked): Very negative, but localised most likely to a single machine, set of machines, or hospital.
(Risk of Software not Delivered): Pretty high if we go super-security. We are on a budget. There is competition. Who is paying for it?
(Severity of not delivered): Failure to cure at every hospital for every machine.
So, yes, there is a cost, but the benefit of ignoring security, for some sets of numbers on the above, could conceivably exceed it.
“Many hospitals are unaware of the high risk associated with these devices,” I assure you that while this is the hospital's official stance, many people within the hospital are well aware of the shoddy software on their medical devices and the risks they pose. There are so many opportunities for disruption of every aspect of the healthcare system (from the equipment itself, that this article addresses, to the electro…
Why was the title changed away from the original? This is getting too confusing. It used to read like the actual title: "It’s Insanely Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment"
Calm down, they just removed an adverb whose only function was to exaggerate.
IF he has an opinion on the difficulty to hack topic there is a comment section. The op is not a comment section for mods
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.
“Many hospitals are unaware of the high risk associated with these devices,” I assure you that while this is the hospital's official stance, many people within the hospital are well aware of the shoddy software on their medical devices and the risks they pose. There are so many opportunities for disruption of every aspect of the healthcare system (from the equipment itself, that this article addresses, to the electro…
I almost wonder what a completely reimagined vertically integrated health care system would look and cost like.
“Many hospitals are unaware of the high risk associated with these devices,” I assure you that while this is the hospital's official stance, many people within the hospital are well aware of the shoddy software on their medical devices and the risks they pose. There are so many opportunities for disruption of every aspect of the healthcare system (from the equipment itself, that this article addresses, to the electro…