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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.
Um, don't hook them up to the network? Have nurses do actual work with written data instead of some need with always being online? I could be talking out of my ass here but everything doesn't need to be online. Really?
This word is used twice this way in the summary. What does it mean to "pop" a dispensary or patient monitor?
This is symptomatic of the general tech ignorant populace not caring about security intil its too late. This incident will blow over and security will be forgotten about again until the real bad guys come calling.
The new IoT stuff is wide open to hackers too. People seem to only only care if they can control something with their iphone so can show off to friends. The sales people and manufacturers know this all too well and don't give a fuck about it.
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.
Quite true, but in order to do that you had to be physically present.
Now you need some brains.
Brains is not the problem.
The fact that you can do such nefarious hacking remotely is the problem. You no longer need to be physically present.
THAT is what is concerning.
"Fish" (David B. Trout)