snip The article goes on to mention the fact that an innacurate reading could be produced in an MRI scan, etc if malware affected the hospital's network and as a result any databases or devices connected to it. Just illustrates a need to ensure that health care facilities have tight security to minimize the issue of tampering of data in order to prevent mis-diagnosis, etc.
/snip if? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3174173.stm And the haha-only-serious thing about this is the fact that the man responsible for the mess that is that hospital's IT system was then promoted to be the lead clinician for NHS IT in the country. whoop-di-do You get promoted to the level of your incompetence within the state in UK In most hospitals in scotland because we expect the POS systems to fail regularly/ lose data like a drunk losing brain cells, we keep all the paper systems in place - the courts won't place any trust in our electronic stuff anyway. **BUT** at yorkhill at that time you couldn't pass wind without computer based authorisation so having the system down for that length of time SERIOUSLY impinged on the medical staffs' ability to do their job. which means that patients (children) were put in harm's way by IT management incompetence. Did it change anything, errr..... no. 10 years ago it was all *nix now it is all windows including a hell of a lot of embedded win95 with "functional" tcp stacks. Sorry about the ranting but this topic is something that has been getting on my tits in a big way for some time. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/25/letters_2506/ guess which letter i wrote after blaster took the hospital down (again) - not reported in news at the time but cleverly covered up. let's not even start about the hospitals that think they are running IPX but don't know that there is an unprotected inet facing socks proxy sitting on their gateway leading to an "unknown to IT" IP based network for playing LAN games on and presumably getting pwned with.... mikie _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html