[dundee] EthHack ISC Diary | Hacking HP Printers for Fun and Profit

[Tim Spencer]

http://hackaday.com/2011/11/30/researchers-claim-that-hp-laser-printers-can-be-hijacked-to-steal-data-and-catch-fire/

On 30 November 2011 14:25, Tim Spencer <samurai.mit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now if your like Abertay and dont have a password on the internalprinter
> configuration page, which lets u upload any firmware u want then ur even
> more into a win. I always played with the idea that as soon as the 'new'
> fireware would read Exam or other such nifty keywords it would mass email
> them to all students. (since the webserver inside Abertay is accessible via
> command line and does not require a valid sender). And the usernames are a
> random number from within that year.
>
> wooty woo
>
> Yet alas I found difficult to find any information on the way the fireware
> was compiled or coded, bad closed source.
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/dundee/attachments/20111201/d076e276/attachment.htm>