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Comment Who reads this?? (Score 1) 367

by Henneshoe on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @08:16PM (#25549389) Attached to: Researcher Warns of "Digital Dark Age"

99% of data that is worth accessing is accessed enough to ensure it is in a readable format. As far as the other 1%, it will give our children of the future something to do. Sounds like another stupid excuse for everything to be open and free. Some things are better proprietary and expensive.

Multifunction Printers — The Forgotten Security Risk? 153

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 13, 2008 @05:47PM from the just-start-with-locks-on-the-doors dept.

eweekhickins writes to share an article in eWeek highlighting the forgotten risks that a multifunction printer could possibly offer. Brendan O'Connor first called attention to the vulnerabilities of these new devices at a Black Hat talk in '06 and warns that these are no longer "dumb" machine sitting in the corner and should be treated with their own respective security strategy. "During his Black Hat presentation in 2006, O'Connor picked apart the security model of a Xerox WorkCentre MFP, showing how the device operated more like a low-end server or workstation than a copier or printer--complete with an AMD processor, 256MB of SDRAM and an 80GB hard drive and running Linux, Apache and PostGreSQL. He showed how the authentication on the device's Web interface can be easily bypassed to launch commands to completely hijack a new Xerox WorkCentre machine."

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