28c3: Print Me If You Dare
What it is
Ang Cui and Jonathan Voris present firmware modification attacks on networked printers at 28c3, showing how HP printers can be compromised and used as footholds for malware inside sensitive networks.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a jaw-dropping demonstration of how insecure embedded printer firmware is.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 1 strong recommendations
- first 2012, last 2018
What HN commenters said
“Your jaw will be scraping along the floor at some of the holes these things have.”
Printer hacking talk showing firmware flaws in networked printers.
JonnieCache, 2012-08 · Strong recommendation · in “Printers are spontaneously printing odd "SQL" strings”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: printer malware, firmware, hp, embedded security, 28c3
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