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Re: Dumping Data From Printers
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  • To: Paul Melson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  • Subject: Re: Dumping Data From Printers
  • From: Gary Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  • Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 20:33:04 -0500
  • Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  • In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Paul Melson wrote:
what would be the greatest risk if network admin leave Network printers
without password protected.

Actually, my favorite demonstration of how EVERY DEVICE ON THE NETWORK MUST BE SECURE was to find a printer on the same subnet as something sensitive (Mainframes work nicely for this demo) and then change the IP address of the printer to match the IP address of the mainframe.

If there isn't a sensitive server handy, setting the printer to have the same IP address as the Default Network Gateway for its network segment is also an effective demo.


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Gary Warner
Director of Research in Computer Forensics
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
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