Vulnerabilities in healthcare devices and hospital systems are leading to growing concerns in the infosec community about patient safety.

At Source Boston, Josh Corman of the Atlantic Council said that healthcare is suffering from a lack of security talent, devices rife with vulnerabilities, and government incentivizing bad behavior.

The FDA sent Abbott Laboratories a warning letter citing that it had inadequately addressed the security of the maligned Merlin@home Transmitter.

Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso talks with Sergey Lozhkin, senior researcher at Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team about medical device security and how he was able to access some devices at his local hospital via WiFi. [embedded content]

There have been some strides made in the last year, but for the most part, security around the healthcare industry has remained the consummate laggard. In the eyes of many, including Scott Erven, a medical device security advocate who spoke at last week’s Security Analyst Summit, the healthcare sector is a good 10 to 15...