Vital signs monitor. (Getty Images)
Censys cybersecurity researchers find medical devices, login portals, and health records floating online.
A surgeon implants a pacemaker into a patient in an operating room on July 19, 2013 at the Argenteuil hospital, in a Paris suburb. (FRED DUFOUR / AFP)
A healthcare worker tends to a patient on a ventilator in the Intensive Care Unit of Baptist Health Floyd on September 7, 2021 in New Albany, Indiana. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)
A TUG robot from Aethon delivers supplies at UCSF medical center in San Francisco on April 15, 2021. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
Forescout at the 2020 RSA Conference in San Francisco. (Greg Otto / Scoop News Group)
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Infusion pumps are among the devices affected by the vulnerabilities. (Getty Images)
Fujifilm’s headquarters in Tokyo. The electronics giant is dealing with a possible ransomware hack. (Photo by KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images)
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"The bigger picture here is authentication, and it’s a problem that’s unfortunately typical for medical devices," said CyberMDX's Elad Luz.
Dec 8, 2020
By
Sean Lyngaas