Oh This? Just a Giant Starmap Made By a Hacked 80s Knitting Machine

Australian engineer Sarah Spencer unveiled “Stargazing: A knitted tapestry” over the weekend at the Electromagnetic Field Camp festival. Continue reading Oh This? Just a Giant Starmap Made By a Hacked 80s Knitting Machine

[SANS ISC] 3D Printers in The Wild, What Can Go Wrong?

I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “3D Printers in The Wild, What Can Go Wrong?“: Richard wrote a quick diary yesterday about an interesting information that we received from one of our readers. It’s about a huge amount of OctoPrint interfaces that are publicly facing the Internet. Octoprint is

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HP launches printer bug bounty program with Bugcrowd

HP, the Palo Alto, California tech giant, announced Tuesday it will be inviting white hat hackers to probe its printers for bugs that attackers could exploit for malicious purposes. Shivaun Albright, HP’s chief technologist of print security, described the program as complementary to existing security features built into HP printers. “We have some features in our devices to detect when attacks occur,” Albright told CyberScoop. “But if you look at it, recognizing that a device can it protect against all current and future attacks, what we wanted to do was go beyond what’s happening in the industry.” The HP printer bug bounty program will be managed by Bugcrowd, a prominent bug bounty platform. HP’s program will be private, meaning researchers who already have some experience with Bugcrowd will be invited to join. Albright said the program will be a pilot that could lead HP to open it up to the […]

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How should firewall be configured to allow using an image scanner over WiFi to avoid jeopardizing security?

I’m having a dilemma if I should post this here or on superuser, finally I decided it’s more security related so I post it here, if it’s wrong please move.

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