FDA preparing for the hacking of Medical Devices

Would We Know If A Medical Device Was Hacked? (OrthoSpineNews)

The absence of reported hacks on medical devices doesn’t mean they aren’t happening, experts say, because there are no mechanisms in place to detect them.

The FDA has made medical device cybersecurity a high priority, even as it stresses that there have been no reported incidents of malicious medical device hacks or of patients harmed by a security-related issue.
But that assurance is based more on assumption than fact, experts say. And other evidence gathered in real-world healthcare environments suggests that the lack of cy...