wraggster
September 17th, 2014, 22:30
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/590cd4869980bb08ffc2d4bf79fa10be/200755558/doom-printer.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/15/doom-canon-printer/)
It's been over twenty years since the original Doom first hit PCs, and we're still obsessed with getting the damned thing running on just about everything with a processor (http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/27/doom-on-an-atm/). See that tiny screen up there? That's a Canon PIXMA printer that's been coaxed into running the classic shoot-em-up, thanks to a bit of elbow grease and an once-insecure web interface that lets users remotely print test pages and download firmware updates. Since you didn't need to punch in a username and password to access that interface, security researcher Michael Jordon used that oversight (http://www.contextis.co.uk/resources/blog/hacking-canon-pixma-printers-doomed-encryption/) to get the lowly-printer to executing foreign code. The end result? Yet another device we can use in our apparently never-ending war against hellspawn (though the color palette does get a little screwy sometimes). Naturally, don't expect to pull the same fast one on your own for much longer -- Canon plans to release a fix the issue as soon as it's "feasible".
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/15/doom-canon-printer/
It's been over twenty years since the original Doom first hit PCs, and we're still obsessed with getting the damned thing running on just about everything with a processor (http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/27/doom-on-an-atm/). See that tiny screen up there? That's a Canon PIXMA printer that's been coaxed into running the classic shoot-em-up, thanks to a bit of elbow grease and an once-insecure web interface that lets users remotely print test pages and download firmware updates. Since you didn't need to punch in a username and password to access that interface, security researcher Michael Jordon used that oversight (http://www.contextis.co.uk/resources/blog/hacking-canon-pixma-printers-doomed-encryption/) to get the lowly-printer to executing foreign code. The end result? Yet another device we can use in our apparently never-ending war against hellspawn (though the color palette does get a little screwy sometimes). Naturally, don't expect to pull the same fast one on your own for much longer -- Canon plans to release a fix the issue as soon as it's "feasible".
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/15/doom-canon-printer/