Hacking Medical Devices. Federal Regulators Issue Warning.

Medical devices are interconnected. It creates better health care delivery and creates access points for hackers.

Federal regulators issued a warning that a pump used to deliver medicine to patients, the Symbiq Infusion System from medical device-maker Hospira, can be hacked by if access is gained to a hospital’s computer network.

Not the first time medical devices and hacking have ended up in the same sentence:

•  In 2011 it was shown that insulin pumps can be hacked. 
• In May , a security firm warned that hospital xray scanners can be used by hackers to gain access to patient information.

Washington Post