An IT specialists have succeeded in hacking and remotely controlling the anesthesia unit of a hospital. Fortunately the hacker attacked the unit during surgery. The attack was rather planned to indicate serious safety deficiencies of life support systems.
- A Tried shows how hackers shockingly easy hospital can manipulate technology.
- In the test made it a specialist, to tap into an anesthesia machine.
- The lack of security and increasing networking of devices increases the risk of life-threatening attacks.
joined an IT specialist’s laptop to the internal hospital network to reports, the news magazine “Der Spiegel”. Then he took advantage of a security vulnerability the software to accept the anesthesia machine. Respiration rate, oxygen saturation and all other controllers were now in his hands. The manufacturer is silent about the magazine, so that it can remedy the deficiencies as soon as possible.
apertured Security System Software
All the action was to show how full of holes was the security system of the software. A South German hospital had hired security experts Florian Grunow for this test. Grunow regularly tests medical devices for security risks. In the past, he hacked MRIs and patient monitors.
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The increasing networking of all possible devices increases the specific risks to health and life of people immensely, if not swiftly IT security is given absolute priority among manufacturers.
Even cars were already chopped
For this is not the first time that it was possible hackers to take control of a potentially life-threatening situation. Together with the American magazine “Wired” manipulated pro-hacker controlling a Cheep Cherokee. The helpless editor inside the car could only watch as air conditioning, radio and windshield wipers going crazy. Much worse: The IT specialists also controlled accelerator and brake the moving car
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