{"id":241,"date":"2015-08-06T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/08\/06\/hacking-medical-devices-federal-regulators-issue-warning\/"},"modified":"2015-08-06T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T17:30:00","slug":"hacking-medical-devices-federal-regulators-issue-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/hacking-medical-devices-federal-regulators-issue-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking Medical Devices. Federal Regulators Issue Warning."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medical devices are interconnected. It creates better health care delivery and creates access points for hackers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ics-cert.us-cert.gov\/advisories\/ICSA-15-161-01\">Federal regulators issued a warning<\/a> that a\u00a0pump used to deliver medicine to patients, the\u00a0Symbiq Infusion System from medical device-maker Hospira, can be hacked by if access is gained to\u00a0a hospital&#8217;s computer network.<\/p>\n<p>Not the first time medical devices and hacking have ended up in the same sentence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0In 2011 it was shown that insulin pumps can be hacked.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In May , a security firm warned that hospital xray scanners can be used by hackers to gain access to patient information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-switch\/wp\/2015\/08\/03\/connected-medical-devices-the-internet-of-things-that-could-kill-you\/?tid=hpModule_88854bf0-8691-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394&amp;hpid=z12\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical devices are interconnected. It creates better health care delivery and creates access points for hackers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ics-cert.us-cert.gov\/advisories\/ICSA-15-161-01\">Federal regulators issued a warning<\/a> that a\u00a0pump used to deliver medicine to patients, the\u00a0Symbiq Infusion System from medical device-maker Hospira, can be hacked by if access is gained to\u00a0a hospital&#8217;s computer network.<\/p>\n<p>Not the first time medical devices and hacking have ended up in the same sentence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0In 2011 it was shown that insulin pumps can be hacked.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In May , a&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-data","category-regulatory-enforcement","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}