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Thousands of devices unexpectedly printed a message supporting PewDiePie Cybersecurity and digital forensics specialists reported that during the most recent months a “Youtube war” has been waged pursuing the recognition of the channel with the most subscribers between the Swedish YouTuber Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg, and the firm T-Series, channel dedicated to Bollywood cinema. This is […]
For many of us hacking of printers seems to be next to impossible thing. But, a hacker has hacked more than 150,000 printers via the internet. The attack affected all kinds of printers- from home devices to shop receipt printers. The printers were hijacked and were instructed to churn out pages and print out strange […]
Thousands of internet-connected printers could allow an attacker to steal sensitive data, as well as passwords that could allow further compromise of a network. New research published by academics has resurfaced several serious vulnerabilities in popular internet-connected printers, which if exploited could allow an attacker to remotely steal sensitive documents from print jobs. The research […]
Short Bytes: According to a latest EFF research, it’s possible that you own printer is leaking the important information about you to the government. By printing some secret yellow codes on each document, Xerox, Brother, Dell, HP, and Canon printers are “helping” the Secret Service. A research team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has cracked […]
Short Bytes: A team of security researchers have successfully demonstrated that the standard equipment inside computers, printers and other devices could be hacked to send information out of the offices as sound waves. Recently, this sound wave hacking was demonstrated at Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. Since a very long time, security researchers, hackers and […]