Internet-facing printers remain a huge risk Posted on 29 January
2013. Bookmark and Share Despite repeated warnings about office
and home devices being accessible from the Internet when there
is no good reason for them to be, every now and then someone
gets the idea of using Google Search to sniff out just how many
of them are there.  The latest in this line is Adam Howard, a
UK-based software engineer who searched for publicly accessible
HP printers by using a sequence that matches with an often-used
pattern for printing documents on an office or home network:  He
found "about 86,800 results" four days ago, but as you can see,
the number has risen in the meantime.  "There's something
interesting about being able to print to a random location
around the world, with no idea of the consequence," he noted,
sharing an easy way to wreak havoc and damage in an office for a
while.  But, he also pointed out that there are other security
concerns tied with this fact, as many printer models have known
exploits which ca