A photo from open sources A month ago, we wrote that researchers from University of Washington analyzed safety surgical robot “Raven II” and concluded that skilled hacker is able to connect to the device and end his life located on the operating table of the patient, using his a computer.
Now in American clinics they sound the alarm that hacking can be exposed to computerized pumps serving to intravenous administration of drugs to patients. By connecting to this device, a hacker in theory can kill a person by changing the dosage medication or choosing a completely different, dangerous for a person medicament.
Billy Rios, an experienced cybersecurity expert, analyzed the most modern pumps and came to the conclusion that manufacturers are not paying enough attention to safety like technicians. Pumps are computers connected to The World Wide Web is just like laptops or smartphones. Being a good hacker, you can hack medical equipment, take it under your control and harm the patient. According to Rios, with such low protection first hacking of the pump by any Web users are just a matter of time.
Previously, something like this was considered pure fantasy – for example, in the film “Law Abiding Citizen”, where the protagonist hack prison apparatus for lethal injection and in terrible agony kills the killer of his family. Now, according to experts, when more and more technology connects to the Internet, such crimes can become a reality. It remains to be glad that in the Russian the clinic will give you an injection so far not a robot, but a living human.
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