GE Monitoring Station Vulnerability Could Let Hackers Turn Off Critical Patient Alarms
Executive Summary
US regulators and GE have notified health-care providers that the company’s nurse bay monitoring stations could be attacked by malicious hackers to turn off critical alarms that are intended to alert caregivers when a patient is in a critical state.
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