BF2S Forums No Noez Conflicker Worm Attacks!!!!!

A San Jose Mercury News news report says that over 300 hospital devices, including MRI systems, were infected with the Conficker worm and attacking other devices on the network.

It's surprising at first to hear of hospital technical equipment running on Windows, but it's quite common. Walk around a hospital and you'll see lots of Windows-based devices.

One actually surprising claim in the story is a claim attributed to a device manufacturer that the FDA requires 90 days of notice before applying software patches, such as the patch issued by Microsoft in October that would block the vulnerability exploited by Conficker.

Even if true, it doesn't seem to be the problem here; the patch was issued in October, 90 days after which is January. The story states that the infected machines were found by outside researchers in March.

On top of that, the infection strongly indicates a lack of proper network security at the hospital. Good firewall configuration on the device could have blocked the attack, for example, and it's clear that users were allowed to bring unprotected outside systems, probably some notebook computer, onto the same network as the MRI. There's a lot of blame to go around here.
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