CISA warns of Medtronic cardiac device security vulnerability

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Medtronic reported a cyber breach of a vulnerability in its Paceart Optima System, which compiles and manages patients’ cardiac device data.

WHY IT MATTERS

According to Medtronic’s advisory, the vulnerability is in an enabled optional messaging feature in the Paceart Messaging Service and healthcare organizations should work with Medtronic technical support to install the update to the…