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Backdoor uncovered in China-made patient monitors — Contec CMS8000 raises questions about healthcare device security (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I run a managed service provider (basically corporate I.T.) and we deal with lots of medical & dental companies. We have yet to walk into a place EVEN IF THEY HAD OTHER I.T. SUPPORT BEFORE WE GET THERE that isn't actively bleeding mass amounts of data to China and have no idea why they are doing so. Some systems are even going as far as to send out screenshots and passwords.

We don't know why it's so prevalent in medical and dental, but it's probably not good.

It's kind of terrifying how non-private everything is in badly run companies that are more cost-focused than privacy-focused. Even worse, we've had some medical and dental offices refuse support because it was too costly (and we're on the lower-mid end of pricing), but having all their client data stolen was free!