Networked Scanners Present Real Threats From Insiders And Hackers

It happens every day -- a sensitive document lies in the copier room, forgotten by the person who left it on the scanner. No big deal, right? Nobody else was able to read it. Wrong, says Michael Sutton, a lab researcher at security vendor Zscaler. In fact, that document could easily be captured by an insider or an external hacker, without ever moving the paper from the scanner.

In a blog posted yesterday, Sutton offered some hard evidence to suggest that networked scanners equipped with remote operations capabilities can easily be tapped to collect data from the sensitive documents that are run through them each day.

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