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More Printers Could Mean Security Problems for Home-Bound Workers

14
Sep
2020

As employees outfit their home offices with the necessary technology to continue to work remotely, printer sales have surged in the first eight months of 2020, leaving security experts to worry that the devices may open up companies’ home-bound employees to attack. An analysis by consulting firm Deloitte estimates that 2020 may see a 15% […]

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Researchers Hijack 28,000 Printers to Show How Easily They Can Be Hacked

27
Aug
2020

The research was conducted by security experts at CyberNews, who claim to have identified more than 800,000 printers that were accessible over the internet and had network printing features enabled. They then selected a sample of 50,000 exposed printers and sent them a script that instructed the devices to print the security guide. The researchers […]

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HP shutting down default FTP, Telnet access to network printers

06
Dec
2016

Security experts consider the aging FTP and Telnet protocols unsafe, and HP has decided to clamp down on access to networked printers through the remote-access tools. Some of HP’s new business printers will, by default, be closed to remote access via protocols like FTP and Telnet. However, customers can activate remote printing access through those […]

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