Collaborate Disseminate
My aim is merely statistical. Ideally, I would like to know if you do it or not, namely how common it is to secure printer access even within an institutional LAN.
Ok, I fully admit this might be in the realm of paranoia, but hey, isn’t that sort of the name of this game? 🙂
I’m staying in a hotel room and needed to buy a small, cheap laser printer for some printouts I need to do. After shopping far … Continue reading Any risks connecting to a Chinese printer?
As the title suggests, I would like to ask you if you know how common the use of IPSec is for securing network printers.
This question is mainly addressed to sysadmins.
If you are a system administrator, do you consider it necessary to act… Continue reading How common is it to use IPSec for securing printers? [closed]
I recently installed a new printer in our network. Just because I was interested, I switched to wireshark when scanning for and adding the printer on windows. I noticed that it was discoverd through mdns and then instructed windows to down… Continue reading Rogue network printers as an attack vector in windows
Polaroid has today launched the Hi-Print, a pocket-friendly photo printer that can turn smartphone snaps into 2.3 x 3.4-inch prints in less than a minute, which can then be stuck on lockers, laptop lids, backpacks, or scrapbooks.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Pocket printer makes stickers of smartphone photos
Windows 10 updates released as part of last week’s Patch Tuesday appear to be making life hard for some printer users. Continue reading Microsoft promises to fix Windows 10 printer problem
Scenario:
Network printer “Scan To Shared Folder” feature.
Network printer IP address: 192.168.0.10
Network printer “Scan To Shared Folder” details:
Network path: \\192.168.0.155\Folder\Subfolder
Login username: aficio
Password:****** R… Continue reading Get login password from network device
I know printers are a security hole. I am trying to get the best setup to minimize risk.
Here’s the risk that I am trying to mitigate : that an attacker remotely access the printer, and use it as a launchpad to infect other computers.
I want to buy a good quality printer, but I want it to be as safe as possible.
All the good printers I see have wireless capabilities unfortunately. I know the safest would be a printer with no networking capabilities.
If I buy a printer… Continue reading Printer security
Xerox announced today that it would be dropping its hostile takeover bid of HP. The drama began last fall with a flurry of increasingly angry letters between the two companies, and confrontational actions from Xerox, including an attempt to take over the HP board that had rejected its takeover overtures. All that came crashing to […] Continue reading Xerox drops $34B HP takeover bid amid COVID-19 uncertainty