They also found surgery robots connected to internal networks. Although the robots generally have software firewalls to block connections to them, Erven and his team found that simply running an off-the-shelf vulnerability scanner against the firewall caused it to turn off and fail open.
Wow, just wow.
If someone ever hacks an active surgery robot it's going to be Saw meets Snow Crash, and not in a good way.
Wow, just wow.
If someone ever hacks an active surgery robot it's going to be Saw meets Snow Crash, and not in a good way.