For the first time, on July 9, 2019, ICS-CERT disclosed a vulnerability specifically impacting anesthesia machines. If exploited, the vulnerability would allow an attacker to silence alarms, alter date and time settings, adjust gas composition inputs, change barometric pressure, and switch between anesthetic agents — all without authentication.
On June 18, 2019, Netflix researchers, together with MITRE, issued an advisory containing four vulnerabilities relating to how Linux handles TCP Selective-Acknowledgement (SACK) at the kernel level. These vulnerabilities affect devices running operating systems containing a large range of Linux and FreeBSD ...
For healthcare organizations, regulatory compliance is serious business. Non-compliance not only carries serious ethical implications and threatens the loss of public trust, but even from a purely financial perspective, regulations still loom large. HIPAA especially. With a maximum penalty of $1.5 million per ...
On May 14, 2019, Microsoft published an advisory for a newly discovered remote code execution vulnerability. Given the identifier CVE-2019-0708, the vulnerability has been more ...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 10 years, you’ve heard of the Internet of Things, or IoT as it’s commonly abbreviated. The subset of IoT belonging specifically to healthcare and its supporting technologies is called By Ido Geffen 3 min
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 10 years, you’ve heard of the Internet of Things, or IoT as it’s commonly abbreviated. The subset of IoT belonging specifically to healthcare...
Today’s hospitals are centers of advanced technology, with upwards of several thousand medical devices and clinical assets under their roof. The US is home to 6,210 hospitals, each with 50 to 500...
Picture this: you're a doctor at Holy Mountain’s Heart & Vascular Center. You're running late. Rushing past a waiting room full of patients in need of care, you hurry to your office and unlock the...
The world is changing; and while there may never have been a time when that statement was not true, it seems particularly true today. Change these days seems to be a lot more aggressive and...
It’s been a year since Spectre and Meltdown — the hardware vulnerabilities discovered collaboratively by Google’s Project Zero and others — went public. Those vulnerabilities rightly garnered...
Subject to stringent regulatory regimes with considerable legacy complications hindering new infrastructure, technology, or processes — most hospitals are also saddled with significant...
Use of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) in hospitals is growing. IP addressable medical technologies help deliver personalized care more quickly, give healthcare professionals access to...
It seems that every day we hear about the need for more and better medical cybersecurity measures, but why? We don’t hear about the need for retailers to improve shoplifting prevention mechanisms....
Machine learning is totally transforming the healthcare industry; from how patient care is delivered, to how laboratory procedures are conducted, to diagnostics, all the way to how information...
By now, most of us are familiar with the “WannaCry” ransomware attack. This attack exploited a weakness in Microsoft's Windows operating system to encrypt files and render computers useless until...
I won't sugar coat it. Hospitals are seen by hackers as "soft" and valuable targets. The modern medical facility is connected to the internet in a multitude of ways. These connections include...
Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, the new Netflix documentary, The Bleeding Edge, profiles five people who suffered horrendously when the medical devices on which...
Medical devices can be your best asset and your worst nightmare. X-ray machines, defibrillators, and other medical electronics are life-saving technologies, but they can also be easily hacked if...
