You probably don’t think too much about your humble office printer. But they’re a prime target for hackers, if any of the dozens of vulnerabilities found by security researchers are anything to go by.

The good news: Government agencies are increasingly aware that printers can pose a serious security threat to their networks and data. According to a 2016 Center for Digital Government (CDG) survey, ...

Printers being hacked is nothing new. It’s even hit the headlines a few times with one being used to store pirated files, then another being programmed to display a paperclip on every page it printed.