Researchers at the NCC Group have discovered significant vulnerabilities in six commonly used enterprise printers which could open up organizations to potential attacks and data breaches.
The vulnerabilities were uncovered after the team tested multiple aspects of six mid-range enterprise printers including web application and web services, firmware and update capabilities and hardware analysis.
The team tested printers from HP, Ricoh, Xerox, Lexmark, Kyocera and Brother using basic tools to reveal a wide range of vulnerabilities with some emerging almost instantly.
NCC Group will present its findings at several security conferences including DEF CON, Hack in the Box and 44Con later this year.
If the vulnerabilities were exploited by attackers, the potential impact could range from denial of service attacks that could cause the printers to crash, backdoors that would allow attackers to maintain a hidden presence on an enterprise network or even the ability to spy on every print job sent and to send print jobs through to unauthorized parties.
Thankfully though, all of the vulnerabilities discovered by NCC Group have either been patched or will be in the near future.
IoT devices go through one-time authentication which makes them vulnerable to infiltration and nefarious attacks, with each type vulnerable to different kinds.
Some primary forces driven by the adoption of IoT are:
Creation of Business Opportunities: The connected world of devices, people and data helps create numerous business opportunities for many sectors.
Strategic Decision-Making: Real-time updates offer resources to improve decision making and make fact finding more accurate.
Reduction in costs of Components: Costs of IoT components have significantly gone down, which effectively means that the cost of IoT-linked devices is getting more affordable day by day.
Internet of Things ecosystem is growing at a rapid pace.
For those who purchased a new HP computer, HP Power Assistant is a power management tool introduced by Hewlett Packard for a selected range of PCs and notebooks.
Although, Power usage mainly depends on your computing needs, Power Assistant provides you with the right tool and information to make an insightful decision on how to manage your power requirements.
When the notebook is plugged to AC adaptor, the program indicates the power reading in watts, as well as the battery status, displays an estimate of the remaining battery power charge.
Predefined Power profiles to help users see how current settings affect notebook’s power consumption.
You can easily access the latest version of HP Power Assistant for Windows 10 download from HP’s software library.
The program lies within the system utilities when you purchase Hewlett-Packard computer.
