Medical devices at risk: 5 capabilities that invite danger

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Medical device cybersecurity is lousy — beyond lousy.

Indeed, the word from security experts for most of the past decade (and certainly since those devices increasingly have become connected to the internet) has been that while the physical security of most is superb and the devices function flawlessly, possibly for years at a time, when it comes to security from malicious online attacks, these devices are frighteningly insecure.

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