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What if a group of serious hackers infects a hospital... that place should probably be pen tested substantially
by SQueeeeeL 4y ago
What if a group of serious hackers infects a hospital... that place should probably be pen tested substantially
- throwaway1777 4y agoThey are pen tested. Now same question, what happens when the ransomware infects a hospital?
- eitland 4y agoHas happened before. Responsibility always lies on those who created the malware. But also on hospital IT if they didn't take precautions.
- _jal 4y ago> But also on hospital IT Hospital IT soaks in a special set of impossible choices. Vendors lock them to insecure OSes and inflexible contracts. Regulations are equally inflexible. In general, security is in tension with providing patient care, especially in emergency situations. And all this stuff is super expensive, which means making do with old gear in a lot of places. I am in no way defending incompetence. But the reality is grim.
- zitterbewegung 4y agoYea it’s not like a MRI machine you bought only uses Windows XP
- uni_rule 4y agoTheir ability to hold back infrastructure updates for old but still functional equipment is government tier.
- zitterbewegung 4y agoSorry but I was being unclear. The MRI machine's supplier designed it using Windows XP and they don't offer anything else. Sure it should be either airgapped or networked on some type of VLAN / quarantined by outside access but that's not my point.