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Medical Device Hijacking as Vector into Hospital Networks

posted by martyb on Monday June 15 2015, @12:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the one-device-to-pown-them-all dept.

tonyPick writes:

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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  • (Score: 2) by VortexCortex on Tuesday June 16 2015, @12:55AM

    by VortexCortex (4067) on Tuesday June 16 2015, @12:55AM (#196687)

    How many of these WindowsXP installs have OEM services installed, remote desktop/registry and other services and are there any vulns in the medical software they are running? Is wireless enabled? Bluetooth? Other unsafe protocols?

    If I told you, they would put me back in jail.

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