An interesting article from ComputerWorld shows another angle direction from which an organization may be attacked electronically. It is not enough that security managers and ISOs need to worry about compromised PCs, servers, or smart phones but now they have also to worry about their printers.

At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas in August, O’Connor delivered a blow-by-blow presentation on how to bypass authentication, inject commands at the root level and create shell code to take over printers in Xerox Corp.’s WorkCentre line of printers, which run on Linux operating systems. He described the kinds of mischief you could do with a compromised printer, including password-catching, password-snarfing (changing passwords), hijacking functions, grabbing print jobs and playing with a billing program.

More at ComputerWorld.