Hospitals are testing a way to detect malware

Connected gadgets in your home have grown increasingly connected, but healthcare is only just beginning to join this brigade. One of the biggest reasons why health professionals are reticent to connect their devices is a concern over security — for health tech, attacking a device can mean attacking a person. Hospitals have sought out ways to mitigate digital attacks, however, and legacy antivirus programs have been the mostly common route. But researchers have recently been tinkering with a new method for detecting nefarious digital actions: a program called WattsUpDoc. WattsUpDoc is a program that uses power and electricity as a means to detect if a malware has been introduced into a network.