Saint JekyllBot:5, the Robot With a Double Life

Patron of hospital robots, control servers left on the internet, and machines that deliver medicine without asking questions.

Life

On 12 April 2022 Cynerio revealed five vulnerabilities in Aethon's TUG autonomous robots, which carry medicine, linen and meals around hospitals. The server that runs them could be reached without authentication: a stranger could have taken control, watched through their cameras or disrupted their rounds. Helpful Dr Jekyll by day, potentially Mr Hyde by night: Aethon fixed it all in version 24 of the Home Base Server.

Prayer

O Saint JekyllBot, who walks the wards with two souls, let our robots answer only to those who care for them. Amen.

How to celebrate

Celebrated by updating the Home Base Server and taking off the internet anything with wheels and a web interface.

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