Lab instruments may be leaking patient data, study finds

University of California researchers say the sounds biomedical research machines make are vulnerable to hackers. The new report noted the cyber-physical nature of biotechnology workflows has created new security risks, which the research community has mostly neglected.The researchers, including Philip Brisk, a UC Riverside associate professor of computer science, and UC Irvine electrical and computer engineering professor Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque, recommend labs using DNA synthesizing machines institute security measures.These include strictly controlling access to the machines and removing innocuous-seeming...