Tired of fighting with the office printer?
What if it not only failed to print but also was taken over for use in a Denial of Service attack.
Trustwave's Spider Labs issued an advisory on this risk after they discovered it - and printing company Brother did not respond.
"The Debut embedded http server contains a remotely exploitable denial of service where a single malformed HTTP request can cause the server to hang until eventually replying with an HTTP 500 error. While the server is hung, print jobs over the network are blocked and the web interface is inaccessible. An attacker can continuously send this malformed request to keep the device inaccessible to legitimate traffic."
Brother printers are network-connected consumer and business multi-function printers. You can see evidence of this printer vulnerability here.
This is far from the first time that network connected printers have been identified as a 'weak link' when it comes to cybersecurity.
