December 30, 2011 02:51 pm PST
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Printer malware: print a malicious document, expose your whole LAN
One of the most mind-blowing presentations at this year's Chaos Communications Congress (28C3) was Ang Cui's Print Me If You Dare, in which he explained how he reverse-engineered the firmware-update process for HPs hundreds of millions of printers. Cui discovered that he could load arbitrary software into any printer by embedding it in a malicious [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/x1_zL0EjmWY/printer-malware-print-a-malic.html
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