One of the newest arenas for cybersecurity is connected vehicles, and few types of vehicles are more connected than ambulances. That means medical transport is a growing target for hackers.
As Wired reports, a security researcher in Spain personally found several thousand industrial vehicles, including ambulances, with unsecured communications hubs called telematics gateway units. These TGUs typically track the vehicle’s location, gas mileage and other data not unique to healthcare transport.
But, as Work Truck magazine reported back in 2013, ambulance fleets have been incorporating computer processors, cellular radios, Wi-Fi, GPS and firewalls into their gateways. These gateways sometimes download patient records and send vitals directly to hospital emergency departments.
So it’s chilling to learn that TGUs aren’t always secure. Wired described the work of the researcher, Jose Carlos Norte, who used widely available scanning software For the full article click here
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