On 11-12-07 04:32 PM, Patricia Campbell wrote:
Opinion: Realistically how likely is it that someone will intercept
and hack a WEP stream to a printer. Unless this is a high security
institution it is overkill to encrypt a printer stream. If there is
a need to print the occasional secure document how hard is it to have
a wired printer. There are more security breaches through people
walking out the door with a document than via wireless printers.
With security the weak link is always the human factor.
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Leslie S Satenstein
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
To get to your printer, they would have to get to the print
server. If they get to the print server, then you really had no
security program in place.
Thanks for the heads up Nick. I will use this argument for one of
our clients.
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*From:* Nick Sklav <[email protected]
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*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Monday, December 5, 2011 2:18 AM
*Subject:* Re: [MLUG] Millions of printers open to devastating
hack attack, researchers say
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 19:00 -0800, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
> While it is true that millions of printers are open to
hacking, there
> is no profit in doing this. Vandalism would quickly identify the
> guilty.
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> Leslie
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Yes in the case of making money it is not apparent, but if
said hackers
where paid to disrupt your business then i would say it could be
profitable if there end goal was to do just that.
Need to keep an open mind when security comes in to question.
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Patricia is right in this case. Almost all cases of security/theft in my
experience have always been related to a human factor. Best example i
can think of is someone storing sensitive information on the IPOD and i
am not referring to the touch ones but the old style. There is a notes
feature on it and someone was storing info that obviously had value.
I would not be too worried about printers. I would patch them and all
but it would probably not be priority number 1. But chances are if you
have a wep printer you might also have a wep router and that sadly can
be cracked with no effort in a few minutes tops. So it is obvious were
wireless printer security falls in this equation.
Most people use simple password to begin with usually ranging from wife/
husband name girlfriend/boyfriend in one case mistress ;) kids names
birthday's or most often on a post-it in plane sight.
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