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Chinese-Made Patient Monitor Contains a Secret Backdoor (www.pcmag.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] tal 44 points 2 weeks ago

Frankly, I'm not sure that it's a good idea to have life-critical systems on the Internet in the first place, issues with backdoors aside.