Anatomical Devices Forebodes Cyber Hostility “Medical care is the next cyber warfare.” Janine Medina, a technologist, stated Thursday at a panel on the cybersecurity issues posed by the rampant proliferation of Internet-connected medical and anatomical-embedded...
Could someone hack your pacemaker? FDA is recalling 465,000 of them due to that risk The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recalling nearly 500,000 pacemakers — the device that controls one’s heartbeat — citing concerns that they are vulnerable to hacking....
Your doctor’s office is vulnerable to hackers, but Congress could fix it easily Small health-care facilities like doctors’ offices are uniquely vulnerable to cyberattacks due to the sensitive information on their networks, and because many lack the resources to defend...
After WannaCry, ransomware will get worse before it gets better The WannaCry outbreak put ransomware into the global spotlight, generating global coverage across mainstream media outlets as the malware epidemic locked governments, hospitals, public transport networks,...
Medical device industry ‘not doing enough on cybersecurity’ The medical device industry appears to be under siege by cybercriminals, but it isn’t taking steps to defend itself, according to two separate reports. Over the next 12 months, two-thirds of...
