Security in the Internet of Things is a fairly common concern these days – you know, Heartbleed, toasters, that kind of thing – but you may not even have considered the greatest threat to your connected devices: classic 1990s first person shooters.
That’s the scenario presented in this recent experiment from Context Information Security. By taking advantage of a web interface that require no user authentication, the Context team managed to get Doom up and running on a Canon Pixma printer. Obviously Doom is not the point in itself, so much as an illustration of the vulnerability, but it definitely gets the idea across. According to Michael Jordon at Context, the vulnerability was fairly serious: