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February 25, 2016 04:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4Ck5wmeON9w/patient-monitors-altered-drug-dispensary-popped-in-collosal-hospital-hack-test
Patient Monitors Altered, Drug Dispensary Popped In Collosal Hospital Hack Test
It's not just hospital networks that are in danger; mask.of.sanity writes with this story at The Register: 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 or kill patients. Full paper here.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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