Whoops: Google indexes more than 86,000 HP 'public' printers

[Ralf]

Whoops: Google indexes more than 86,000 HP 'public' printers

Summary:
The search engine turns up tens of thousands of publicly available printers connected directly to the Internet.
Hackers, however, could launch never-ending printing attacks.

If you type in the following on Google: inurl:hp/device/this.LCDispatcher?nav=hp.Print

ZDNet Link

The best practice here is to set up the printer within the firewall and enable VPN access,
so documents and files can be printed remotely but over a secure channel.
And, it almost goes without saying: stick a password on there so at least if it is accessible over the Internet it can't be maliciously accessed or screwed around with