Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers
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Re: Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers
#2So, next question is how much malware is hanging around for those printers? Are all / mostly / some / none compromised?
Re: Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers
#3Should we now all print documents to those printers with warnings saying that they are publicly accessible?
Re: Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers
#4Worse than printing somewhere remote, many of those are probably also scanners. If the original is left on the glass (I forget it all the time), an attacker could scan it remotely.
Re: Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers
#5Should we now all print documents to those printers with warnings saying that they are publicly accessible?
Either that or freak people out by printing messages from ghosts stuck in their printer.
Re: Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers
#6So is the secret service going to knock on my door if I click a link? I can't tell anymore.
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#7Direct link on Google.com: https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Ahp%2Fdevice%2Fthis.L...
Re: Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers
#8Should we now all print documents to those printers with warnings saying that they are publicly accessible?
I'm assuming that it is just the setup/status/diagnostics control panel so you'll not be able to print anything arbitrary (shame, it could be a fun game!). If you are of a mind to wind someone up you might be able to kick out a pile of test pages and reconfigure the thing so it is no use until someone does a factory reset.
A similar but worse case was some years ago when a range of consumer router+firewall boxes had a fault which made them present their control interface on the WAN interface and had no password set by default. A large number of those somehow got into a search index (it may have also been Google, I can't rightly remember), and from there you can probably do more harm than you can from a printer.
Re: Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers
#9Should we now all print documents to those printers with warnings saying that they are publicly accessible?
I'm assuming that it is just the setup/status/diagnostics control panel so you'll not be able to print anything arbitrary (shame, it could be a fun game!). If you are of a mind to wind someone up you might be able to kick out a pile of test pages and reconfigure the thing so it is no use until someone does a factory reset. A similar but worse case was some years ago when a range of consumer router+firewall boxes had…
I've looked at two and both had the option to print a file that you uploaded. Of course I didn't actually try to print anything, but it looks like you probably could.
Re: Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers
#10Should we now all print documents to those printers with warnings saying that they are publicly accessible?
I'm assuming that it is just the setup/status/diagnostics control panel so you'll not be able to print anything arbitrary (shame, it could be a fun game!). If you are of a mind to wind someone up you might be able to kick out a pile of test pages and reconfigure the thing so it is no use until someone does a factory reset. A similar but worse case was some years ago when a range of consumer router+firewall boxes had…
I already tried and printed PDF file, it works.