Category Archives: Printer Security

CA has IoT security reg’s for 1/2020

Interesting law in California, of course its pretty vague from what I understand on what “reasonable security feature” is. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/11/new_iot_securit.html

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HP has a bug bounty for its printers

Unfortunately its thru private invite only with bugcrowd.com.  I remember looking at HP systems a few years back and, well this might be a good way to bring in some extra cash. https://www.zdnet.com/article/hp-will-give-you-10000-to-hack-your-printer/

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Interesting project that looks at IoT devices

Basically it monitors the devices for security and privacy issues.  Haven’t played with it myself yet. https://iot-inspector.princeton.edu/

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Interesting firmware IETF’s drafts in the works

I know there are several groups that have working standards for managing and updating software on IoT devices, this is the first I have seen from a standards body that isn’t totally controlled by one company.  Thought the list of … Continue reading

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A printer exploit kit

One of a few I will be posting up.  Most of them seem to be part of a school project and then fall off the cliff. https://github.com/RUB-NDS/PRET

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Looks like the NSA leaker was bit by a Xerox Machine

I got a kick out of this.  The leaker, a contractor that should have known better, printed out the documents she leaked on a Xerox machine that has timestamp, serial number, etc printed on the documents in invisible form to … Continue reading

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Hacking printers

A nice article that goes over that hacking printers is alive and well.  Most of the tool uses PJL to get into the system.  So if you can turn that off, it would be worth it. https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Multiple+vulnerabilities+discovered+in+popular+printer+models/22023/ https://github.com/RUB-NDS/PRET http://hacking-printers.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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Hide your own Homebrewed Stingray in a printer

The author uses a RaspberryPi with some antennas and hides the setup within a HP printer to act as a mini cell tower and sniff in on the traffic.  Pretty clever build. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/02/printer_spy_box/

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RouterSploit, Metasploit (like) for routers

Interesting python based tool.  It is used to find security issue with routers.  Sounds like its similar to Metasploit in setup/use.  Haven’t tried it myself thought. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/26/pair_publishes_python_framework_for_rapid_router_wrecking/

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Hacking systems with barcodes

The author was going after POS systems.  But this would totally apply to things like printers and scanners too. http://hackaday.com/2016/02/17/barcodes-that-hack-devices/

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