Patient Monitors Altered, Drug Dispensary Popped In Colossal Hospital Hack Test (theregister.co.uk)

It's not just hospital networks that are in danger; mask.of.sanity writes with this story at The Register: Security researchers have exploited notoriously porous hospital networks to gain access to, and tamper with, critical medical equipment in attacks they say could put lives in danger. In tests, hospital hackers from the Independent Security Evaluators research team popped patient monitors, making them display false readings which could result in medical responses that injury or kill patients. Full paper here.

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Come on

[nospam007]

For the last 100 years any idiot could 'hack' the patient file hanging on the foot of the bed with a tool called a 'pen', changing 5 milligrams to 75 or whatever.
Now you need some brains.

The paper says ...

[Ihlosi]

The paper says they didn't hack the patient monitor, only considered such devices as possible attack targets.