Your printer vs the hackers
Posted on 18 Jun 2009 at 11:26
Steve Cassidy has never seen a furore like that caused by HP's admission that networked printers retain hackable documents.
But now it's inside your network, so doing things to the printers on your network to stop them from seeing the outside world is utterly pointless - the most likely source of risk to your documents in those printers is that less-well-protected PC that sits right beside them. It's quite surprising how many even very small operations these days have more than one location to take care of, even if that only means the proprietor's home network reaching a server in the office. Responding to an unfortunately brief security advisory by only looking at the words in it actually creates more stress than it relieves, and I'm sure none of us are looking for that kind of excitement.
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Steve Cassidy
Steve is a networks expert and a contributing editor to PC Pro for more years than he cares to remember. He mixes network technologies, particularly wide-area communications and thin-client computing, with human resources consultancy.
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