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Master's student Daniel O’Connor, conducting research for a thesis at Dublin City University, has discovered security flaws in printers that allow potentially sensitive documents to be read remotely by hackers. The portal left open Printers are often overlooked when IT security policies are put in place, and this can leave them open to exploitation. Network servers and PCs typically get the ...
MFPs – those deft and multifaceted machines that can, besides printing, also scan to a file, scan to email, and fax documents – can pose a security risk if you use one with documents you are not eager to share. Or so says security expert Deral Heiland, speaking at this past summer's DefCon 19 conference. Heiland went on to detail ...
Canon is trying to tap the enterprise market with its new imageRunner Advanced printer series which is soon to be launched. The printer series comes with a security feature powered by Adobe Systems which involves PDF sharing through the printer on a network, and only to those users with proper accesses. As per the company's statement - Users can send documents ...
Hewlett Packard has issued an urgent patch upgradation for all Laserjet owners, owing security concerns. The company states that the loophole discovered can lead to hackers remotely "read arbitrary system configuration files and cached documents" stored on the printer through its web administration console. They say thirteen is a bad number and that's the number of printers that are impacted by ...
Xerox has released a patch to fix a recently discovered vulnerability on its WorkCentre multi-function printers. The loop hole could potentially allow hackers to gain control of the printer. The patch can be downloaded here. Earlier this month, Xerox discovered a susceptibility that provided easy access to hackers onto their WorkCentre printers. This could have potentially landed confidential data into wrong ...
Security is at the top in any organization that handles customer data and confidential information. There are a few main standards that provide a set of controls for security management like ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS. But, there is hardly any relevance towards the printer as a form of security threat. Printers these days have hard disks for caching and do contain ...
Ever wondered what somebody could do by hacking your printer? The intensity of hack attacks may not be deadly, yet they are capable of causing some serious problems. There have been plenty of examples of printer hacks and the cause is more or less known to us. According to a leading IT website, printers that have the capacity to store ...
In the wake of SophosLabs exposing HP's vulnerability with one of its toolboxes, HP has launched a secure software suite, Secure Print Advantage aimed at enterprises and organisations that deal with confidential data. HP's new software suite incorporates three elements to secure the data to be printed; encryption software, secure document server and a secure print module. Garry Lefkwitz, director ...
During a privately funded research by SophosLabs, experts have zeroed in on the loophole created by the toolbox software for HP Laserjet 2500 and 4600. Sophos expertise in virus, spyware and spam analysis to help organisations overcome security limitations on their network. The identified security risk rests with the toolbox software distributed with the Laserjet 2500 and 4600 printers. The bug ...
Security has taken the top priority in enterprises; to maintain the confidentiality of data. Printing from a shared printer can never be categorized into a secure system and could impede violations for certain ISO certifications. Ricoh has designed proximity cards for shared printers which print from the allocated printer when the requestor is next to the printer. Just like the access ...