A Hidden Security Threat: Beware the Office Multifunction Printer

win7holic

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Apr 20, 2011
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Cybercriminals are always looking for easy ways to break into your network, whether at work or at home. In a talk at this summer's DefCon 19 conference, security researcher Deral Heiland demonstrated various ways to compromise Internet-ready consumer-grade multifunction printers. These include printers that can scan to a file, scan to email, and fax documents, and the vulnerabilities he found are similar across all vendors.

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when i need to print something i go to the internet shop near, ink is to expensive...
 
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i just need to cross the street, one print is around 3 cents.
 

Ink

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Jan 8, 2011
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We have a multifunction printer connected to our home network, but I've given it Level 2 Content Protection (even though it's not Internet-ready).



win7holic said:
i never use any printer.
win7holic said:
i just go to 2nd floor of my house, then print :D

So you don't use any printer, but you use a printer. That makes perfect sense. :wizard: and 3 cents = $0.03
 

Tom172

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Feb 11, 2011
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Guys, stop flooding threads with pointless replies...


I remember reading an article about a similar problem a while back. Seems just about anything is open to security breach these days :dodgy:
 

win7holic

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sorry tomo.
we just telling something. it's forum.
jack no problem with it.
:)

@earth: yes. i never use is mean i don't have it.
but use it when important thing (use my dad printer)
 

jamescv7

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I'm using printer which is exclusively use for home and I turn off the printer sharing since I'm not using also.

So using printer sharing is only necessarily if use during office.
 

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