Threat | Vulnerabilities cont’d

• Network print servers

  • Printer vendors slower to add strong security features
  • Ex: SpaWar
    • Intruder hacked into the printer and reconfigured the routing tables on other SpaWar equipment.
    • Files were hijacked from printing queue, sent to server in Russia, and then sent back to SpaWar printer... hijacker can keep a copy or even modify
    • Noticed only when impatient user investigated why he had to wait so long for his job to start printing