Black Hat Europe 2023: The past could return to haunt you

Aplite researchers presented at Black Hat Europe 2023 that legacy DICOM implementations leave many medical imaging servers publicly accessible without proper authentication; their scan found 3,806 exposed servers containing data linked to about 59 million patients (roughly 16 million records include identifiable information), creating significant risks of patient data exposure, extortion, falsified diagnoses, and targeted phishing, and the article urges remediation via replacement, segmentation, or adding authentication.