Malware on PCs won't protect you if your printer is exposed to hackers
In April 2015, a group of researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design flew a smartphone-equipped drone up to the 30th floor of an office building and waited. Loaded on the phone was an app that scanned the offices wireless network for an open printer then mimicked it, forcing local computers to connect to the phone instead. Intercepted documents were copied onto a Dropbox account and the file passed along to the real printer for output. The office workers were none the wi...
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Source: wired.co.uk