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IEEE Spectrum has an article medical device cracking, and includes some comments on a research report on medical device hijacking, due to be released on 15 June.
The report, "Anatomy of an Attack–Medical Device Hijack (MEDJACK)," describes in detail three situations in which hackers were able to get into supposedly secure hospital networks, collecting valuable information, by targeting medical devices.
Although the article covers the report, it also goes into the general issue of embedded device security, and references an earlier article on security implications of the Internet of Things (IoT) from the same author.
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Medical Device Hijacking as Vector into Hospital Networks
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(Score: 2) by K_benzoate on Monday June 15 2015, @01:51AM
I had my eyes scanned last week with a shiny new Zeiss OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography [wikipedia.org]). It ran Windows 7. The previous machine it replaced, earlier this month, ran Windows 2000. And yes it was connected to the Internet. Wirelessly.
Now, Linux isn't necessarily bulletproof, but it can at least be supported indefinitely. It won't suddenly stop receiving security updates in 2020. I know a small mom and pop operation like Carl Zeiss [wikipedia.org] probably are just keeping themselves in the black, but you would think they could scrape up some pocket change to maintain an embedded Linux distro, since keeping these machines running is such a huge part of their medical device business.
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