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Patient Monitors Altered, Drug Dispensary Popped In Colossal Hospital Hack Test

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: February 25th, 2016, 9:00pm UTC

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.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Patient+Monitors+Altered%2C+Drug+Dispensary+Popped+In+Colossal+Hospital+Hack+Test%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1R4csGv"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F16%2F02%2F25%2F159217%2Fpatient-monitors-altered-drug-dispensary-popped-in-colossal-hospital-hack-test%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://it.slashdot.org/story/16/02/25/159217/patient-monitors-altered-drug-dispensary-popped-in-colossal-hospital-hack-test?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/16/02/25/159217/patient-monitors-altered-drug-dispensary-popped-in-colossal-hospital-hack-test?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/we-VBuLNcVw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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