You'd think that mammography machines, radiology systems, and ultrasounds would maintain the strictest possible security hygiene. But new research shows that a whopping 83 percent of medical imaging devices run on operating systems that are so old they no longer receive any software updates at all. That issue is endemic to Internet of Things devices generally, many of which aren't designed to receive software improvements or offer only a complicated path to doing so.

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