MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Tasked with evaluating various hospitals’ digital defenses, security expert and professional hacker Scott Erven found that sensitive networks are rife with vulnerabilities that could leave the entire system exposed.
Cybersecurity
Medtronic got hacked, company reveals
FDA cybersecurity rejections are on the way
Although the FDA has only recently begun addressing medical device cybersecurity in an official capacity, device makers would do well to take notice that the agency has ramped up its oversight quickly over the last year.
GE’s new cybersecurity buy includes medical devices | MassDevice.com On Call
Cybersecurity at HRS2014: Are medical devices safe?
It’ll take a village to ensure that medical devices are ready to face the increasingly threat-laden wireless world, speakers told a group of clinicians this week during Heart Rhythm 2014, the Heart Rhythm Society’s 35th Annual Scientific Sessions.
Cybersecurity: Yet another study finds medical devices too easy to hack
Newly unveiled findings from a 2-year audit of a chain of Midwest hospitals corroborated what many in cybersecurity have long said about medical devices: they are too often woefully lacking in digital defenses.
FBI: Medical devices unprepared for new era of cyber attacks
Medical devices and other hospital and healthcare systems need some serious security upgrades to weather the coming onslaught of malicious hacking, according to the FBI’s Cyber Division.
With an impending deadline to shift to electronic medical records, which fetch a high price on the black market, healthcare systems are an increasingly alluring target for cyber-criminals.
Boston Children’s Hospital faces cyber threats – Are the medical devices safe?
Updated April 25, 2014, at 1:30 p.m. with comments from Boston Children’s Hospital.
Officials at Boston Children’s Hospital confirmed that they’d weathered some digital mayhem affecting the clinic’s web services in the weeks following threats from the online hacker group Anonymous.
Medtech cybersecurity by demand: Building groundswell among hospitals
Hospitals are growing increasingly interested in medical device digital security, and a pair of cybersecurity experts hope to consolidate those concerns into a groundswell.
Report: U.S. hospitals, medical devices rife with stealthy cybersecurity attacks
Unsecured medical devices represent an increasing risk for hospitals, with radiology imaging systems in particular named as a prominent "attack surface" for digital attackers.
Compromised clinics, hacked MRIs and online breach-traders | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Sensitive information from 3 nursing homes has shown up on hacker data-trading website 4shared.com, putting those clinics and their patients’ medical records at risk, according to the Wall Street Journal.