The problem appears to be how the printer that commnicates via wifi does its thing.

The coding inside the printer allows for someone coming in *over the wire* from your ISP modem to access the printer when its wifi is activated.

From there, they can take over the printer, in some cases add on dirty trick software bits, get into your entire network, steal identities and passwords, the whole nine yards.

As with any of these kind of attacks, it is likely that some sort of defense for users is in the works, whether that can be done with addon softwares, or via antivirus proggies, or possibly even having to release (and come up with a way for users to self install) new firmware for the printer will some day be the cure. Let us pray.

Until then, it is a very good idea that if you have one of these printers that communicate via your wifi instead of on a physical cable, to defeat the wifi entirely if possible in that printer and connect the printer directly to your router with a network cable, which should put the printer behind the firewall for certain.


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