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Researchers discovered two vulnerabilities in Alaris Gateway Workstations that are used to deliver fluid medication. One of them is critical and an attacker could leverage it to take full control of the medical devices connecting to it.
A flaw in the firmware code of the device has been assigned the highest severity score, a perfect 10, so it can be exploited remotely and without authentication. The other issue received is less severe and affects the workstation's web-based management interface.
[...] Researchers at CyberMDX discovered that AGW's firmware can be replaced remotely with a custom version. An attacker sitting on the same network as the target system would be able "update and manipulate a CAB file, which stores files in an archived library and utilizes a proper format for Windows CE," say the researchers.
With this type of access, the adversary would be able to alter the dosage of the drug dispensed by certain models of infusion pumps connected to an AWG, which are common in hospital wards and intensive care units.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Tuesday June 18 2019, @04:19PM (7 children)
Actually, I have no issue with Aristarchus posting and submitting whatever he wants.
My issue is with the constant off-topic hijacks of stories, which aren't generally anti alt-right rants, but general whinging about how his submissions aren't making it to the front page.
I'm perfectly fine with ranting (and even with nasty, racist trolling -- cf. EthanolFueled) as long as it's actually on topic, even if I vehemently disagree.
But having to wade through mountains of off-topic crap which amounts to "Look at me! You're not paying enough attention to me! Why aren't you talking about me?" from Aristarchus is annoying in the extreme.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0, Troll) by aristarchus on Tuesday June 18 2019, @09:15PM (6 children)
I do try to keep away from hijacking stories. Dogwhistles are an exception, though. And is this case, what do you think would be here if we were not bitching about my bitching? Insightful discussion of fluid pumps? My objection is that the editorial choices very often just seem to not be of interest to Soylentils. (Some Eds do have hobbies?)
And as regards hijacking, uninteresting stories encourage it. Take for example the recent AMD's Lisa Su [soylentnews.org] story, where the comments descended into an in depth discussion of EF's bowel movements and McD's, and a further investigation of Runaway's misogyny. No comments would have been preferable. So everyone may blame me, if you wish. But please do not project your issues onto me, by assigning erroneous motives to my actions. I am only trying to make SoylentNews Great Again!
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday June 18 2019, @10:11PM (5 children)
Given that the medical story went up early in the morning US/Eastern time, it's not surprising that there weren't comments for a few hours.
But having to wade through the off-topic crap likely put people off. What's more, just because a story doesn't get many comments doesn't mean it's a bad story. It just means that folks aren't commenting on it.
Many of the more technical science stories are like that, since many don't have the background to discuss the math or technical stuff, but are still happy to read about it.
There's a difference between snark about an article and whinging about not enough people paying attention to you.
I'd also point out that in the story you referenced [soylentnews.org], talking about McDonalds *wasn't* offtopic, as (apparently, I didn't bother to read TFA) there were references to them in TFA, if not in TFS.
In any event, since I believe in freedom of expression, I won't advocate cutting off your fingers. At the same time, I'm glad your anon posting has been suspended, so you can no longer sock puppet yourself with anonymous comments.
You may think that going on about how unfairly you're being treated by the editors is frightfully witty and important, but I assure you, no one besides you thinks so.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 1) by aristarchus on Tuesday June 18 2019, @10:34PM (4 children)
What makes you think my anon posting is suspended? You can't stop the signal, Mal, you can't stop the signal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 18 2019, @10:48PM (1 child)
Get your story straight, idiot.
(Score: 1) by aristarchus on Tuesday June 18 2019, @10:57PM
Disabled, not suspended, AC! Get your vocabulary straight! No, back to medical devices running WinCE . . .
(Score: 3, Funny) by NotSanguine on Tuesday June 18 2019, @10:58PM (1 child)
Because you said so [soylentnews.org]:
Or was that just more hyperbolic bullshit?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 18 2019, @11:37PM
What did aristarchus say this time?