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Medtronic is urgently recalling remote controllers for insulin pumps belonging to the 'MiniMed Paradigm' family of products, due to severe cybersecurity risks. The controllers that should be returned to the vendor are models MMT-500 and MMT-503, used with Medtronic MiniMed 508 insulin pump and the MiniMed Paradigm family of insulin pumps.
Vulnerabilities discovered in Medtronic's MyCareLink Smart 25000 Patient Reader product could be exploited to take control of a paired cardiac device. Designed to obtain information from a patient's implanted cardiac device, the MCL Smart Patient Reader then sends the data to the Medtronic CareLink network, to facilitate care management, through the patient's mobile device.
The medical device giant said in an advisory last week that at issue is the proprietary Medtronic Conexus radio frequency wireless telemetry protocol that the devices use for remote monitoring of a patient's implanted cardiac device. While most of the affected products are still awaiting fixes, Medtronic has now issued patches for all models of the Brava and Viva lines of CRT-D devices; and bugs in the Evera, Evera MRI, Mirro MRI and Primo MRI lines of ICDs.
Medical device company Medtronic informed customers last week that it has released patches for some cardiac device vulnerabilities disclosed in 2018 and 2019. One of the advisories, initially published in March 2019 by both CISA and Medtronic, covers vulnerabilities affecting the Medtronic Conexus radio frequency wireless telemetry protocol used by some of the company's implantable cardioverter defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators.
Medtronic's latest problem is in their Valleylab electrosurgical generators used by surgeons things like cauterisation during operations.
Critical vulnerabilities impacting Medtronic Valleylab products could allow attackers to overwrite files and achieve remote code execution, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warns. read more
Medtronic is immediately recalling of all MiniMed 508 & Paradigm insulin pumps after researchers uncovered serious security flaws.
Not a particularly sweet ending to the week Health implant maker MedTronic is recalling some of its insulin pumps following the discovery of security vulnerabilities in the equipment that can be...
Medtronic and the US government have warned that some Medtronic MiniMed insulin pumps are vulnerable to hacker attacks that can have serious consequences for their thousands of users. read more
The FDA sent out an urgent advisory warning of serious flaws in Medtronic's insulin pumps, which are used by thousands across the U.S.