Malaware adds or substracts cancerous nodes from scans

[radnyc]

https://apple.news/A0T1Lu5uBRRKflAijHdQWOA

[juliej]

Well, this is worrisome. Hospitals need to use encryption across their networks and to use digital signatures to prevent this kind of thing from happening.

Everyone knows about HIPAA's privacy rules, but no one thinks about the data from their CT scan being compromised. Genome sequencing data would be even easier to manipulate. Flip a few characters and your mutations/variants could tell a whole other story. Of course, there should be a special place in hell for people who would do something like that.

Here's a video of how it works from the Cyber Security Labs @ Ben Gurion University for the curious (or paranoid) out there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mkRAArj-x0

Thanks, radnyc, for posting this!

Juliej

[CRguy]

Very scary proposition for sure ... BUTT this example is a white hat hacking to expose vulnerabilities

Basically anything with a microchip and/or an IP address is potentially hackable.

Yes JJ it is a sick world we live in sometimes
BUTT .. that is exactly why we always need to be on guard and proactive

Thanks for the post radnyc

Cheers
CRguy

[Pyro]

A “what if” article made for clicks and glaringly political, moving on.

[juliej]

Very scary proposition for sure ... BUTT this example is a white hat hacking to expose vulnerabilities

Good point, CRguy!!!

White hat hackers are an integral part of the cybersecurity community. Without them, we'd never know of the many exploits perpetrated on our personal computers, cell phones, wireless networks, etc -- let alone really scary things like infrastructure and weapons systems!

JJ