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Patient monitors altered, drug dispensary popped in colossal hospital hack

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Dissent

Scary stuff. Darren Pauli reports:

Security researchers have exploited notoriously porous hospital networks to gain access to, and tamper with, critical medical equipment in attacks they say could put lives in danger.

In tests, hospital hackers from the Independent Security Evaluators research team popped patient monitors, making them display false readings which could result in medical responses that injury  (sic) or kill patients.

 

[…]The research, led by healthcare head Geoff Gentry, is documented in this paper Securing Hospitals[PDF].

Read more on The Register.

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