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Chinese-Made Patient Monitor Contains a Secret Backdoor (www.pcmag.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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The backdoor on Contec CMS8000 patient-monitoring devices could allow an IP address at an unnamed university to remotely download and execute unverified files, according to CISA.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

There are valid questions, many of which revolve around how and why it's used.

Some systems have brain damaged approaches to diagnostics/logging, license enforcement, or remote service/update systems that create security holes but are not intentionally malicious.

Security is hard and we should remember Hanlon's Razor.

[–] Benjaben 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I get lots of mileage out of Hanlon's Razor, and I acknowledge the rampant incompetence that suggests its applicability, but digital security seems like about the least appropriate place to apply this rule of thumb.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As someone who has to deal with PCI compliance issues, there's plenty of noob mistakes, out-of-date thinking and outright "let's log this data for debugging purposes even though if any regulator found out they'd nuke us from orbit."

[–] Benjaben 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fair enough, I can imagine that pretty easily.