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Presentation – HL7 Insecurities

Presentation – HL7 Insecurities

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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!

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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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Hacking HL7 Data Interfaces in Medical Environments: Attacking and Defending the Achille’s Heel of Healthcare

Hacking HL7 Data Interfaces in Medical Environments: Attacking and Defending the Achille’s Heel of Healthcare

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This security research paper is the second of two examining the HL7 messaging standard, which is arguably the most fundamental flaw in healthcare IT. HL7 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 medical data, what HL7 is, as well as potential dangers inherent to HL7. The second paper moves beyond theory and is an in-depth, technical discussion on ways to…

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HL7 Data Interfaces in Medical Environments: Understanding the Fundamental Flaw in Healthcare

HL7 Data Interfaces in Medical Environments: Understanding the Fundamental Flaw in Healthcare

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This security research paper is the first of two examining the HL7 messagiang standard, which is arguably the most fundamental flaw in healthcare IT. HL7 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 medical data, what HL7 is, as well as potential dangers inherent to HL7. The second paper moves beyond theory and is an in-depth, technical discussion on ways to…

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