A hacker has briefly hijacked more than 150,000 printers accidentally left accessible via the web. The attacker made the devices print a warning urging their owners to cut off remote…
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Have hackers turned my printer into an offensive weapon?
In September, some of the biggest ever net attacks targeted the website of a prominent blogger and French hosting firm OVH. One attack is believed to have involved more than…
Printers now the least-secure things on the internet
BitDefender’s senior threat analyst Bogdan Botezatu despairs of IoT security. By Richard Chirgwin The Internet of Things is exactly as bad a security nightmare as pessimists think it is, according…