Ben-Gurion University, 3/28/2017
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University demonstrated the ability to communicate with and potentially activate malware on a computer by directing pulsing lights to a typical office scanner that was left open on the same network. These exploits exemplify how seemingly secure devices could be a potential security threat to other networked machines.
[See the full post at: Scanners Can Be Hijacked to Perpetrate Cyberattacks]