Thousands of Publicly Accessible Printers Searchable On Google

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 25, 2013 @09:00AM from the message-in-a-bottle-on-the-digital-ocean dept.

Jeremiah Cornelius writes "Blogger Adam Howard at Port3000 has a post about Google's exposure of thousands of publicly accessible printers. 'A quick, well crafted Google search returns "About 86,800 results" for publicly accessible HP printers.' He continues, 'There's something interesting about being able to print to a random location around the world, with no idea of the consequence.' He also warns about these printers as a possible beachhead for deeper network intrusion and exploitation. With many of the HP printers in question containing a web listener and a highly vulnerable and unpatched JVM, I agree that this is not an exotic idea. In the meanwhile? I have an important memo for all Starbucks employees."

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Re:First rule of embedded web servers by SJHillman · 2013-01-25 09:16 · Score: 5, Informative

But at least it keeps the major search engines from indexing your web-accessible device, which is where script kiddies and the malevolently ignorant will go to find strange machines to play with.