PCMag March 20, 2020

Healthcare systems will be maxed out while battling the coronavirus pandemic, but a new study shows that 83 percent of hospital infrastructure is running outdated software vulnerable to attack.

The United States is fighting the COVID-19 novel coronavirus outbreak, but the country’s healthcare systems remain vulnerable to attacks. A study by Palo Alto Networks checked 1.2 million Internet of Things devices in thousands of locations across enterprise IT and healthcare organizations in the United States, and the results are troubling.

It was determined that 83 percent of those devices are running outdated software. A 56 percent majority of those systems are running Windows 7. The remaining 27 percent of outdated...

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