by Hunter Feybusch
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by Hunter Feybusch
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- SC Media magazine published report stating that 20% of businesses have been hit by hackers
- 33% of those surveyed believe that they or others they know have been impacted by hackers inserting malicious firmware into their network connected drives
- 19% have been impacted by hackers targeting PC’s, Laptops, and printers/MFPs
- 91% believe that hackers are targeting their network endpoints
- 51% admit they can not verify if print hardware had its firmware tampered with
- (Konica Minolta’s bizhub i-series MFPs have security features to protect firmware)
– Cyber Insider magazine published article about last week’s Pwn2Own hacking convention in Dublin, Ireland – Part of the event was a contest challenging hackers to compromise different brands of MFPs that were on stage – The following MFPs were successfully hacked, and prize money paid out: – Canon imageFORCE 1643F – Brother MFC-L8970cdw – […]
– Research published by Reliable Business Insights – Projected CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 14.6% – Global market valued at $22.1 billion – MPS market growth driven by: o shift in demand from ownership to outcome-based solutions moving away from the capital-intensive model of buying and maintaining a fleet of printers to an […]
– Research report published by IEEE Xplore – Analyzed reliability of more than 400,000 hard disk drives from a variety of manufacturers – Includes Hitachi, Seagate, Toshiba, Western Digital, etc. – Toshiba hard disk drives between 50 and 100 months old, had a failure rate of up to 6 of 1,000 drives per month o […]
– Report published by The Business Research Company – Total global sales to reach $15.67 billion by 2030 – Market to reach $15.08 billion by end of 2026 – CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 1.0% – Vertical markets include education, government and healthcare
