Cybersecurity Concerns Grow As US FDA Sees Increasing Device Vulnerabilities

Concerns about cybersecurity threats to medical devices have grown over the past year and half, the US Food and Drug Administration affirms, as more and more wireless medical devices have been found to have potential vulnerabilities that hackers could take advantage of and endanger patients.

The agency has been concerned with such risks for some time, going back at least to the 2005 release of a guidance addressing cybersecurity issues for network devices with off-the-shelf...