Much of the medical equipment in use today — from patient monitors to infusion pumps — can be targets for hackers, according to Kevin Fu, a Northeastern professor of electrical and computer engineering and medical cybersecurity expert.
And the threats to human lives are very real, Fu says.
Sure, just remember the S in IoT stands for security and IoT devices are just embedded devices connected to the internet.
And the Medical industry is the proof for the rule.
Maybe we should NOT PUT LIFESAVING EQUIPMENT ON AN INTERNET CONNECTED NETWORK.
Have an internal monitoring network for a nurses station sure, but why the fuck do we need a heart monitor or infusion pump online?
They rich special equipment won’t just the stuff for the poors will.
Honestly these machines and the computers that connect to them should all be in networks isolated from the main hospital networks. Allow a single secure connection for them to relay data to the wider network and allow nothing in.
Hasn’t this been the case since the computerization of hospitals? Haven’t there been many ransomware attacks against hospitals?
yeah i have friends who are medical technicians, and i’ve heard some things
yes, but this time it will be properly dismissed as “fake news”
These are connected medical devices like insulin pumps
The company I work for has locations throughout the US and I don’t think has ever been hacked. While they are not perfect, individual devices are not exposed to the internet! I think that’s pretty basic…
Backdoors for thee but not for me? I imagine what they call hackers would probably end up making the equipment software better.
