Mike Mimoso talks to Marie Moe, a research scientist at SINTEF of Norway, about her personal and emotional connection to medical device security.

St. Jude Medical patched the Merlin@home Transmitter, addressing flaws made public last year in a controversial disclosure by MedSec Holdings and Muddy Waters.

The security community often thrives on controversy, but when it comes to vulnerability disclosures in life-saving medical devices, ego and attention-grabbing must be put aside.

Researchers are warning patients who use insulin pumps made by Johnson & Johnson this week that vulnerabilities in the devices could be exploited to trigger an overdose.

The massive Yahoo breach, this week’s Security of Things Forum, Mamba ransomware, and Google Allo are discussed.

In a keynote at the Internet of Things Forum Dr. Kevin Fu said that medical devices should be subjected to rigor so patients can make clinically relevant decisions.

The U.S. government has entered into the St. Jude-MedSec-Muddy Waters fray with an investigation into claims St. Jude medical devices are vulnerable to cyberattacks. The Food and Drug Administration and Department of Homeland Security also apparently disapprove of the approach taken by MedSec and Muddy Waters to short St. Jude stock rather than privately disclose...

If you’re sick and sitting in a drab hospital room hooked-up to a dialysis pump, the last thing you want to worry about is hackers. But according to IT healthcare security experts, there is a chance that life-saving dialysis machine is infected with malware, could even be processing fraudulent credit card transactions, or is part...

More than 1,400 vulnerabilities exist in a widely used drug cabinet system, according to an advisory issued by the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) on Tuesday. The problems exist in Pyxis SupplyStation, an automated medical supply cabinet manufactured by CareFusion. The systems, common in nursing setups in facilities across the healthcare sector,...

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]