Fax machines make it hard for healthcare providers to share patient data in the digital era, which is why the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced a goal to make hospitals and private practices fax-free by 2020.
Here’s another incentive for providers to ditch those archaic, noisy machines: They can be breached by hackers to attack a network.
Researchers from security vendor Check Point Software Technologies say they have uncovered a vulnerability in the ITU T.30 fax protocol that could be used to gain access to digital networks.