Well, boys and girls, Halloween is approaching. Although it’s fun to don a Dracula (or Miley Cyrus) costume and get some yucks faux-scaring folks, the FDA is acting like a responsible parent by setting up a medical-device cybersecurity public workshop, “Collaborative Approaches for Medical Device and Healthcare Cybersecurity” later this month in Arlington, Virginia.

It appears to have filled up already, but a webcast recording will be made available. Why review it? Put it this way: Getting a tiny adrenalin rush when a 9-year-old Frankenstein jumps out at you in the dark is one thing; finding out some 19-year-old hacker has infiltrated your proprietary product and customer information is a different kind of fright altogether.

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