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High-risk medical technology has been found to be infected by computer viruses and malware, health and security experts have said.
They fear that the virus infections could become so severe that a patient may end up getting harmed.
Out-dated computer systems which were not able to be changed were to blame for the vulnerabilities, the experts said.
One US hospital is said to be deleting viruses from up to two machines a week.
The warnings were given as part of a panel discussion in Washington DC, as reported by Technology Review from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mark Olsen, chief information security officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said the hospital had 664 pieces of medical equipment running on old versions of Windows.
This means the equipment is affected by weaknesses which later releases of Windows have since fixed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19979936
Scary! 😱
They fear that the virus infections could become so severe that a patient may end up getting harmed.
Out-dated computer systems which were not able to be changed were to blame for the vulnerabilities, the experts said.
One US hospital is said to be deleting viruses from up to two machines a week.
The warnings were given as part of a panel discussion in Washington DC, as reported by Technology Review from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mark Olsen, chief information security officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said the hospital had 664 pieces of medical equipment running on old versions of Windows.
This means the equipment is affected by weaknesses which later releases of Windows have since fixed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19979936
Scary! 😱