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Month: July 2018

Presentation – HL7 Insecurities

Presentation – HL7 Insecurities

HL7 Data Interfaces in Medical Environments – Attacking & Defending the Achilles’ Heel of Healthcare This security research served as a 2-part SANS gold paper examining the insecurities of the HL7 messaging standard. This presentation is a combination of those two papers. HL7 is arguably the most fundamental flaw in healthcare IT. It is used extensively for system-to-system communications and is in nearly every healthcare facility worldwide. The first paper is an overview of what can be done with stolen…

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Mysterious outbound UDP traffic on port 8888… Help!

Mysterious outbound UDP traffic on port 8888… Help!

What is this traffic on port 8888? Or a device is infected and trying to communicate over port 8888 to IP addresses all over the world?!?! I’ve seen forum posts with similar titles a handful of times now and the final result is often someone discovering the Private Internet Access (PIA) client on a device or computer. I get a chuckle every time I see it because I was once in their shoes so I figured I would make a…

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