[Cryptography] trojans in your printers
Dan McDonald
danmcd at kebe.com
Wed Feb 25 14:42:22 EST 2015
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:07:49AM -0800, Henry Baker wrote:
> One of the largest attack surfaces in any home or office is the printer.
Amen to that!
>
> Can anything being done to address the risks from printer-borne malware?
My printer (which is functionally spectacular, but carries all the risks you
mentioned) is on my local home network with a static IP address, and more
importantly, has no off-link route (default or otherwise) in its tables. (I
also disable the wifi and only use its wired ethernet... I should confirm
that when I get home). It's hard for it to phone anywhere when it can't get
packets off the local-LAN.
If you compromise my home network, I have larger problems than JUST the
printer being malicious. Isn't it all about risk-assessment at the end of
the day, anyway?
Dan
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