Honestly,
I would possibly expect that any network device that takes unauthenticated and unsolicited input could be vulnerable to these type of attacks. Also give the “less than secure” web interfaces they wrap around these printers. /Evil hacker hat on. Now basically think if the underlying os that the printer is using is Nix, and the website is running under root process and you are able to XSS/SQLi attack the interface ( fire up metasploit or W3af and have a ball trying, or something more crafted with a web fuzz like the burp-suite) and gain root, drop your rootkit which sets up a backdoor process that sends a copy of each print job out to a remote site ( sure because a lot aren’t doing egress filtering of traffic especially from hosts they feel are on the “trust” network. Now think of all the push to electronic medical records and pdf’s of sensitive items that is being pushed by the federal govt as part of compliance and meaningful use mandates, and having a copy of this information out on the hackers site, its an appetite for easy Identity theft and a slew of other issues. /Evil Hacker hat off. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization email:[email protected] phone:401-639-3505 From: MMF [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack, researchers say It appears that this affects only Laser Printers according to the article. Anyone heard anything further as to inkjet printers not being affected? Also, the new E-Print HP printers have their own “email address”, so would that have any impact, not to mention wireless printers? Mfree From: Mike Sullivan <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 10:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack, researchers say This sounds like it could be a nightmare if all printer models are affected. http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/29/9076395-exclusive-millions-of-printers-open-to-devastating-hack-attack-researchers-say -- Thank you, Mike Sullivan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
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