Silent Epidemic: Do Software Errors Already Affect Patient Outcomes?

The Security Ledger article reports that software and hardware failures in medical devices — including an antivirus-caused diagnostic outage and SamSam ransomware infections exploiting an unpatched JBOSS vulnerability — are likely already harming patients, yet the scope is unknown because hospitals and vendors lack measurement, patching, information sharing, and funding to secure clinical environments; experts at Black Hat call for better operational security, reporting, and monitoring to mitigate these risks.