{"id":761,"date":"2015-10-16T15:28:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T15:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=761"},"modified":"2019-04-10T19:53:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:53:44","slug":"upwards-of-68000-medical-systems-are-accessible-online-for-hackers-to-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/upwards-of-68000-medical-systems-are-accessible-online-for-hackers-to-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Upwards of 68,000 Medical Systems are Accessible Online For Hackers to Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers discovered an alarming finding when investigating a \u201clarge, unnamed US health group\u201d recently, concluding that at least 68,000 medical systems \u2014 like MRI scanners and infusion systems \u2014 are accessible online for hackers to attack.<\/p>\n<p>The major health organization, which will remain anonymous, was thoroughly explored and exposed by researchers Scott Erven and Mark Collao after they were able to access the interfaces of thousands of medical systems using the search engine Shodan.<\/p>\n<p>Not only were they able to identify internet-connected devices, but the two also explained at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-34390165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hacking conference Derbyco<\/a>\u00a0that they\u00a0were able to locate where devices were within a particular building.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, a hacker could go in and easily steal device data and more importantly, patient data directly from the vulnerable machines.<\/p>\n<p>Collao <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2015\/09\/29\/thousands_of_directly_hackable_hospital_devices_found_exposed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explained to The Register<\/a>, \u201c[medical devices] are all running Windows XP or XP service pack two \u2026 and probably don\u2019t have antivirus because they are critical systems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers discovered an alarming finding when investigating a \u201clarge, unnamed US health group\u201d recently, concluding that at least 68,000 medical systems \u2014 like MRI scanners and infusion systems \u2014 are accessible online for hackers to attack. The major health organization, which will remain anonymous, was thoroughly explored and exposed by researchers Scott Erven and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[428,427,426],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2903,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/2903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}