A Hidden Security Threat: Beware the Office Multifunction Printer

[win7holic]

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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[Deleted member 178]

luckily i dont have this kind of stuff

 

[win7holic]

i never use any printer.

my dad using it always.

 

[Deleted member 178]

when i need to print something i go to the internet shop near, ink is to expensive...

 

[win7holic]

i just go to 2nd floor of my house, then print

 

[Deleted member 178]

i just need to cross the street, one print is around 3 cents.

 

[win7holic]

3 cents? how much in $US?

 

[Deleted member 178]

it is in usd

 

[Ink]

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).

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i never use any printer.

i just go to 2nd floor of my house, then print

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

 

[Tom172]

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]

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]

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.