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Hacking Medical Mannequins

Posted by samzenpus on from the protect-ya-neck dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A team of researchers at the University of South Alabama is investigating potential breaches of medical devices used in training, taking the mannequin iStan as its prime target in its scenario-based research. Identifying the network security solution and network protocol as the vulnerable components, the team was able to carry out brute force attacks against the router PIN, and denial of service (DDoS) attacks, using open source tools such as BackTrack.

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  1. HYPE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ‘If medical training environments are breached, the long term ripple effect on the medical profession, potentially, impacts thousands of lives due to incorrect analysis of life threatening critical data by medical personnel.’

    This is such hyperbolic bullshit.

    The iStan is always operated by a trainer. The trainer would know it was misbehaving.

    It's like saying that since med students sometimes learn by watching training material on a TV... and look - with a simple remote control, we can CHANGE THE CHANNEL ON THE TV! MY GOD! IMPACT THOUSANDS OF LIVES!!!

    Source: I have a brain.