Yesterday I read in the FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) that hackers are nowadays concentrating on hacking printers instead of workstations. To sum things up, the basic assumption is that important information will not merely remain in the digital form, but will soon or later printed. Especially in bigger companies, multi-national corporate giants, printing is done over the network.
To many hackers joy, the printers are not secured that well. Compared to workstations, servers or file-storages, the security measures aimed at keeping unauthorized access out is laughable. I did some testing with my Brother MFC 7820N Printer, which operates over the network here.
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