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Medical Device, Health Care Security Continues to Ail

Kaspersky Lab researcher Sergey Lozhkin cracked the digital walls of a Moscow hospital. He found a shocking array of open doors on the network and weaknesses in medical devices and applications crucial to the privacy of patients. The researcher wanted to attack the hospital the way a black hat would without of course accessing patient data or manipulating devices and he started by sitting outside the location and cracking the facility s Wi-Fi. He said a major problem is that some of these devices not only suffer from traditional software vulnerabilities, but many are connected to the Internet.

Source: https://threatpost.com/medical-device-health-care-security-continues-to-ail/116228/

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