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Cross Site Printing: Printer Spamming

2008-01-09 22:16:31 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
Many network printers listen on port 9100 for a print job (RAW Printing or Direct IP printing). You can telnet directly to the printer port and enter text. Once you disconnect from the printer it will
 
Tags: printer, port, printer port, enter text, print job, telnet directly, network printers, direct, disconnect
 
 
 
 
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Spam your printer from the Web? Researcher shows how

2008-01-09 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Aaron Weaver has made a discovery the world could probably do without: He's found a way to spam your printer from the Web
 
Tags: web, printer, spam, aaron weaver, world, discovery
 
 
 
 
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Cross Site Printing

2008-01-08 22:32:52 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...printer on your local network. The obvious use? You got it, spam So now, when you visit sites, there is a potential for them to spam you, similar to the way some people receive FAX spam. While he has only gone so far as to show how you can send ASCII art, it would be interesting to see if a PostScript formatted file could be sent in a way...
 
Tags: ascii art, cross site, aaron weaver, print, visit sites, printer, visit, inter protocol xss, print job
 
 
 
 
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Why your company may need a mystery shopper

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2008-02-28 03:21:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...printer for the office. I had been impressed with a recent episode of Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice that featured a well known brand that was attempting to re-invent itself with a line of printers whose ink cost 50% less than that of their competitors When I entered the store there was a clerk type of person and another guy who...
 
Tags: hours sans starbucks, starbucks, coffee, coffee fun, customers, loyal customers, sales, fun, customer service counter
 
 
 
 
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Playing With Homemade Explosives

2007-08-07 17:30:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...printer was simply out of paper, and later that night when dad put some more in, out popped a page on making napalm from gasoline and styrofoam. They have also never asked me how the metal window screen in my room melted in one corner. I dont know how I would have told them it was due to a freak accident when I was making my first accurate...
 
Tags: gas, lawn mowers gas, tank, cars gas tank, time, time delay fuse, terrorist, empty gas, recent terrorist plots
 
 
 
 
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DRM Scorecard Makes Me Wonder: The Media Industry and the TSA, Sadistic or Incompetent?

2007-08-02 08:19:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...printer board under any name they want Oh yeah, well we sell malleable $.05 pieces of plastic for $20 and when it gets scratched or stolen, we force them to buy a new one because we dont allow them to make backups. Even though anyone with technical skillz can download the same thing for free Oh yeah, well we found a way to make people who...
 
Tags: media industry, industry, media industry views, illogical behavior impedes, drm, behavior, drm scorecard, secret, secret internal referendum
 
 
 
 
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Forensic Printer Codes May Be Illegal in Europe

2008-02-25 05:50:07 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
I've already written about secret forensic codes embedded in color laser printers. Seems like these codes may breach European privacy laws
 
Tags: codes, secret forensic codes, color laser printers
 
 
 
 
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Securing Network Location Awareness with Authenticated DHCP

2008-03-19 12:47:02 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...printer sharing, collaboration applications, and custom servers). When the computer is taken home or roaming, this policy leaves an excessively large attack surface This static approach also harms user privacy. Modern applications broadcast a large number of identifiers which may leak privacy sensitive information (name, employer, office...
 
Tags: network location, location, network location awareness, network, office location, dhcp, network location identifier, logical network, vista dhcp client
 
 
 
 
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EIC 2008: Takeaways from Europe's biggest identity event

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2008-06-13 08:19:15 by Bill Nagel in Security & Risk Management
...printer, or photocopier connected to the College's network, and will allow lecturers secure access to classroom resources. The College does have the luxury of setting up this system in the context of moving to brand-new facilities, but it shows that if the IT and physical security folks can agree to pull in the same direction, convergence is...
 
Tags: identity, information, information risk management, user-centric identity, iam, iam implementation, effective information security, implement iam, holistic iam context
 
 
 
 
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Dude Dont Hack My Coffee

2008-06-18 05:19:11 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...Printer Hack Old News I chuckled when I saw this Change the message on HP printers cause I thought it was pretty funny. Th Mac Hacked in 2 Minutes, Apple is a lame patcher At the CanSec West conference Charlie Miller wins the PWN 2 OWN contest. I think these contest are k These are the crazy people in your security neighborhood - Part 2...
 
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