Study finds 1.2M medical devices exposed on internet

Default credentials, weak passwords, IT misconfigurations and a variety of other security shortcomings are exposing millions of medical devices and their data on the internet, said Soufian El Yadmani, CEO and co-founder of Modat, who shared recent research findings.

In some cases, the devices are set with “easy” passwords to streamline access for busy doctors, nurses and other clinicians who must move from patient to patient or task to task very quickly and very often, he said.

But with these kinds of security inadequacies, “that’s where the problem becomes bigger and bigger, because any attackers or hackers can actually get into these systems without even spending too much time trying to exploit vulnerabilities,” he said.

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