Recently, there was a news story about millions of printers are open to hackers. If you have seen the emails that have been going around lately from what looks like an HP Printer, you are one of the lucky ones. Printers and copiers today digital and have hard drives and memory. No one ever thinks about what information is stored on them, but if you use them, your information could be vulnerable.
According to researchers at Columbia University, they have discovered a new class of security flaws:
It’s not only possible, but likely, say researchers at Columbia University, who claim they’ve discovered a new class of computer security flaws that could impact millions of businesses, consumers, and even government agencies. Printers can be remotely controlled by computer criminals over the Internet, with the potential to steal personal information, attack otherwise secure networks and even cause physical damage, the researchers argue in a vulnerability warning first reported by msnbc.com. They say there’s no easy fix for the flaw they’ve identified in some Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer lines – and perhaps on other firms’ printers, too – and there’s no way to tell if hackers have already exploited it.
Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack, researchers say
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