80% of Hospital Pneumatics

2021-08-02 20:58

Researchers have discovered nine vulnerabilities - collectively dubbed PwnedPiper - in the pneumatic tube systems used in more than 80 percent of major hospitals in North America.

The Translogic PTS system, used by more than 3,000 hospitals worldwide, is the pneumatic version of a hospital's veins, arteries and capillaries: The tubes deliver medications, blood, and lab samples throughout a hospital.

Translogic PTS system is an advanced system in that it integrates with other hospital systems.

All of the bugs are patched except one that affects legacy systems.

The flaws in the control panel control system allows attackers to not only mess with the functioning of the pneumatic tube system, but it's also at the very heart of other hospital systems.

So the control system in the control panel, that allows them to not only mess with the functioning of the pneumatic tube system, but it also functions at that point As a potential unprotected and malicious endpoint in the environment of the healthcare IT health system.

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https://threatpost.com/pwnedpiper-bugs-hospital-pneumatics/168277/

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