When medical devices and hospital networks become a health risk

Author: Areg Alimian The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued guidance to medical device manufacturers recommending they employ a structured and systematic approach to addressing continually evolving risks. Within a week of issuing the guidance, Kaspersky Lab researcher Sergey Lozhkin was shedding light on the real-world story of how relatively easy it is for a hacker to break into a hospital network and take control over medical devices. So, what do “insecure” hospital networks, medical devices and genetically modified organisms have in common? They all pose potentially catastrophic health risks to us and our loved ones.