Hacking the hospital: medical devices have terrible default security

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@ChickieD

I also think hospital IT staff rely on the fact that most hospital workers are not super tech savvy in a technician/network specialist/admin kind of way and that the technicians that come in are from trusted companies.

At the one university hospital where I worked, the IT staff didn’t get involved much at all with devices or computers that controlled devices – that was usually the bailiwick of the Biomedical Engineering Group. IT just provided pipes to the device if the engineering group needed them.