Be very afraid. Hospital and medical devices have been found to be infected by a computer worm (kind of like a virus), reports this Mercury News article, Conficker worm hits hospital devices, "A computer worm that has alarmed security experts around the world has crawled into hundreds of medical devices at dozens of hospitals in the United States and other countries, according to technologists monitoring the threat." What I find so disturbing in the article is, "the working group has seen thousands of other machines located in hospitals reach out to the Conficker mastermind by contacting another computer on the Internet for instructions." The potential danger could be leaking of your health information, or the medical devices could be recruited as robots in an attack on other computer systems. Isn't technology grand!?
Monday, May 4, 2009
Medical Devices Infected By The Conficker PC Worm
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