Hi My new wireless duplex Brother printer is WEP enabled. So does that mean that communication to the printer is encrypted.
The problem with wireless routers, as I understand it, is that the session between between router and workstation, is one of being being protected with a static WEP encryption key value. Therefore, if one could find a new technology such that WEP encryption key interchange changes regularly with every new system boot, would that help? ------------------ Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein 50 years in IT and going strong. Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, and tomorrow will be even better. mailto:[email protected] alternative: [email protected] www.itbms.biz --- On Tue, 11/29/11, Sorin Toma <[email protected]> wrote: From: Sorin Toma <[email protected]> Subject: [MLUG] Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack, researchers say To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 7:50 PM Rewriting the printer's firmware takes only about 30 seconds, and a virus would be virtually impossible to detect once installed. Only pulling the computer chips out of the printer and testing them would reveal an attack [...] In one demonstration of an attack based on the flaw, Stolfo and fellow researcher Ang Cui showed how a hijacked computer could be given instructions that would continuously heat up the printer’s fuser eventually causing the paper to turn brown and smoke. [...] In one demonstration, Cui printed a tax return on an infected printer, which in turn sent the tax form to a second computer playing the part of a hacker’s machine. The latter computer then scanned the document for critical information such as Social Security numbers, and when it found one, automatically published it on a Twitter feed. http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/29/9076395-exclusive-millions-of-printers-open-to-devastating-hack-attack-researchers-say -- Best Regards, Sorin Toma _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
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