My uncle had surgery in a very well regarded hospital in the Northeast US. I visited him in one of their buildings and they were absolutely in a shambles from an IT perspective. Someone with bad intentions and a USB drive of almost any description could probably wreak havoc there.
I know of a local clinic where I live that has decided to stay on Windows XP and just told their staff "not to surf" as their way of dealing with security issues. While in the waiting room when I took my sister in for an appointment I discovered you could look around pretty much anywhere, it has no network security and the doctors computers are on the same LAN as the public unencrypted wifi.
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My uncle had surgery in a very well regarded hospital in the Northeast US. I visited him in one of their buildings and they were absolutely in a shambles from an IT perspective. Someone with bad intentions and a USB drive of almost any description could probably wreak havoc there.
I know of a local clinic where I live that has decided to stay on Windows XP and just told their staff "not to surf" as their way of dealing with security issues. While in the waiting room when I took my sister in for an appointment I discovered you could look around pretty much anywhere, it has no network security and the doctors computers are on the same LAN as the public unencrypted wifi.