(ANSA) – Rome, June 22 – The majority of software that manage the medical device is at least 10 years old, and It is easy to circumvent by hackers. The report highlights the ‘Anatomy of an Attack’ TrapXlabs company, which describes three cases actually occurred, without specifying where, when patient information were stolen, but that would be possible in theory also take control of the equipment .
The first incident described covers three devices for analyzing blood in a hospital, whose software contained a ‘backdoor’, literally a ‘back door’ into the program, usually created by developers and unknown to users of the program, which allowed the removal of data that were sent in a European resort. In another clinical US hackers they were able to penetrate the communications system of the radiology department, collecting information and sending it to Guiyang, China. In a third case the ‘backdoor’ was set intentionally by some malicious program that ran the machine for X-rays “Once devices hackers have managed to turn undisturbed throughout the network of hospitals – said the document -. The goal is to steal information on health insurance patients, that the black market are worth 20 times more than the numbers of their credit cards, but if they wanted they could take control of the devices themselves, “the report concludes. (ANSA ).
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