Attackers targeting medical devices to bypass hospital security

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/2931474/data-breach/attackers-targeting-medical-devices-to-bypass-hospital-security.html

By Steve Ragan
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CSO Online
June 4, 2015

A preview copy of a report from TrapX Labs, which will be released later 
this month, highlights three successful attacks against healthcare 
organizations.

The incidents prove that defending assets in a healthcare environment 
isn't as easy as some would have you think. In fact, given the wide range 
of devices on a given network, it can be nearly impossible.

Last year, Community Health Systems had an incident that resulted in the 
compromise of 4.5 million records. It served as a reminder that medical 
information was an important commodity to criminals.

In March of this year, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) tagged 
healthcare as the source of 33-percent of all listed incidents nationwide, 
noting that nearly 100 million healthcare records were compromised in the 
U.S. alone in Q1 2015.

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