On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 06:08:28PM -0500, Nick Sklav wrote: > > 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.
You could probably access the printer directly without involving the router. > 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. > wep is sufficiently weak you don't even need to guess the password. With the right software on a handheld computer you can walk through an office building breaking into every wep as you walk by it. So it doesn't matter if the password is posted in plain sight. Really, you need to secure the computers on your LAN, not just rely on a firewall. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
