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Autonomous robots used in hundreds of hospitals at risk of remote hijacks


Autonomous robots used in hundreds of hospitals at risk of remote hijacks

April 13, 2022 at 11:14 AM

A decade ago security researcher Barnaby Jack famously wirelessly hacked a hospital insulin pump live on stage in front of hundreds of people to demonstrate how easily it could be compromised to deliver a lethal dose of medication. In the years that have passed, medical device security has gotten better, albeit with an occasional high-profile hiccup. But researchers are now finding vulnerabilities in newer hospital technologies that weren’t as ubiquitous a decade ago.

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