A type of anaesthetic machine that has been used in NHS hospitals can be hacked and controlled from afar if left accessible on a hospital computer network, a cyber-security company says.
"None of the anaesthetic machines are connected to the internet or the NUH network so there is very little risk around these machines within NUH," a spokesman told the BBC.NHS Digital said it could not confirm the extent to which the machines were still in use across the NHS. The company told BBC News it did not plan to release any security updates for the anaesthetic machines but hospitals should use secure network protocols to protect them from would-be hackers.
"Patients should be reassured that their anaesthetist will be monitoring them constantly, and will have received many years of training to rectify immediately the situation of a device failure."
Why in God’s name would operating theatre equipment be connected to the internet!?! There is something radically wrong if this equipment isn’t totally stand alone! I can’t quite comprehend the requirements for certain systems lately!!!
That's not at all worrying 😱
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