'Hospitals are hacking '

- It appears to be possible to hack medical equipment in hospitals. Before security guard warns Kaspersky Lab. Cyber ​​criminals can steal patient information and customize diagnoses. Also, they can increase and decrease a dose. Expensive equipment may be disabled.

Sergej Lozjkin Kaspersky has managed to hack a hospital. He found a clinic on Shodan. io, a search for devices that are connected to the Internet, and decided in consultation with the owner to test the security. For the security data from real patients were safeguarded.

Hacking away failed, the hospital was protected too well. But when Lozjkin visited the hospital, he could crack the wifi network. This gave him access to virtually all devices that were attached to it. One was an expensive CT scanner. were fabricated data from patients because the real data were secured in the memory of the device.

According Lozjkin hospitals and medical device manufacturers need to think more about cyber security.