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...

TENERFIE, Spain – Sergey Lozhkin knows malware. Medical devices? Admittedly, not so much. That, however, was not an impediment to the Kaspersky Lab researcher in cracking the digital walls of a Moscow hospital and finding a shocking array of open doors on the network and weaknesses in medical devices and applications crucial not only to...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a new set of draft guidelines on Friday in hopes that medical device manufacturers not only address cybersecurity risks before they design products, but also during the maintenance of those products. FDA outlines cybersecurity recommendations for medical device manufacturers. https://t.co/d58cWW3ecJ — U.S. FDA (@US_FDA) January 15, 2016 The...