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They also found surgery robots connected to internal networks. Although the robots generally have software firewalls to block connections to them, Erven and his
by Robin_Message 12y ago
They also found surgery robots connected to internal networks. Although the robots generally have software firewalls to block connections to them, Erven and his team found that simply running an off-the-shelf vulnerability scanner against the firewall caused it to turn off and fail open.
Wow, just wow.
If someone ever hacks an active surgery robot it's going to be Saw meets Snow Crash, and not in a good way.
- FLUX-YOU 12y agoAnd with some hospitals still running Win XP, it's easy to get a foothold on their network!
- bcostlow 12y agoI'm working in that space, and sampling from the ones I've dealt with, I'd replace some with most. Some of the ones I deal with are also running those XPs with old IE versions, 6 & 7. This is because they bought, then never upgraded, systems that won't run right with newer browsers.