Can cryptography prevent printer-ink piracy?
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A San Francisco company is developing chips that use encryption to control which ink cartridges and printers work together.
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In the latest proof that the label is at least testing DRM-free music sales, consumers can buy gift cards from physical stores and redeem digital albums online. The bad news is that the music is also "anonymously watermarked."
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Blog: Apple acquires the copyright to the Common Unix Printing System, but it doesn't have to abide by its open-source license terms.
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One great way to determine whether your digital product is destined for greatness is how many people want to steal it. The same goes for open source.
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Researchers at Toshiba have developed a method that they say makes possible to absolutely secure distribution of encryption keys across a network.
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Cryptographic researchers have discovered weaknesses in the encryption algorithms that underpin the security and integrity of electronic signatures.
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Relay attack hands baton to fraudsters Doctored payment machines could be used to lift confidential authorisation codes from Chip and PIN credit and debit cards, security researchers at Cambridge University have discovered.â¦
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Fingerprints may soon replace passwords to log on to computers and Web sites, thanks to gadgets like Microsoft's Fingerprint Reader and Lexar Media's JumpDrive TouchGuard Pro. For those with cash on hand, Rollei's throwback MiniDigi digital camera could be a collector's delight, but Sony Electronics' Cyber-shot L1 is a better investment for performance and features. And CD labeling just became easy with Primera Technology's Signature Z1 CD/DVD.
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Determined hackers can outwit the supposedly tamper-proof bank cards that use both a chip and a PIN.
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QUESTION: What is the best approach to protecting me from ID theft and related activities? Will a software package work best, or must I go to a hardware firewall?
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Aaron Weaver has made a discovery the world could probably do without: He&#39;s found a way to spam your printer from the Web.By using a little-known capability found in most Web browsers, Weaver can make a Web page launch a print job on just about any printer on a victim&#39;s network. The Web site could print annoying ads on the printer and theoretically issue more dangerous commands, like telling the printer to send a fax, format its hard drive, or download new firmware.Weaver, a security manager in the financial industry, based in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, described what he calls &quot;cross site printing&quot; in a research paper published Tuesday on the Ha.ckers.org Web site.For a cross-site printing attack to work, a victim would have to visit either a malicious Web site or a legitimate page that suffers from a cross-site scripting flaw, which is a common type of Web programming error. The hacker would then send JavaScript code to the browser that would guess the location of the victim&#39;s printer and send it a print job.Weaver has launched the attack successfully with both the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. Because the attack works only on network printers, a printer plugged directly into a PC would not be vulnerable.The attack is possible because most browsers can connect to the networking port used by most printers to look for new print jobs. So by using the browser as a stepping stone, attackers are able to connect with something they should never be able to reach: a printer on the local area network.While nobody had previously demonstrated this particular hack, Weaver&#39;s research is based on two concepts that are well-known to Web security researchers: cross-site scripting attacks and vulnerabilities in the way browsers handle the Internet Protocol. &quot;There is no precedent for [this hack],&quot; said Robert Hansen, CEO of Web security consultancy SecTheory and owner of the Ha.ckers.org Web site. &quot;But ... what he did was marry two different concepts that we&#39;ve been talking about for a long time.&quot;And if hackers figure out a way to make printers send out information about their print jobs to the Internet, Weaver&#39;s hack could have even more profound security implications, Hansen said.Researchers have already shown how the browser can be used as a gateway to reach mail or VoIP servers. They believe that the browser, with its ability to connect the Internet at large to the local area network, will be an increasingly important source of network attacks. &quot;There are definitely a lot more exploits to be found,&quot; Hansen said.Browser developers are already aware of the problem.The Firefox browser blocks ports known to be associated with known security vulnerabilities, but it leaves many of them open because Web developers often use these ports in Web testing, said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla&#39;s vice president of engineering, via instant message. &quot;If this is a new problem, we can easily add 9100 to the blacklist,&quot; he said. &quot;Folks here haven&#39;t done enough analysis to understand the impact yet.&quot;Weaver said concerns that his research might unleash a new blight on the Internet caused him to hesitate before publishing his paper and hold off on publishing the complete exploit code.By Wednesday he&#39;d already received his first request from someone asking to look at his software -- someone saying he needed to show it to his manager in order to prove that it was a real issue. Weaver said he suspects the inquiry may have come from a spammer.So will we see cross-site printer spam flying around our networks anytime soon?Weaver believes there&#39;s a good chance of that happening. &quot;Spammers will try anything,&quot; he said.
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Security researcher demonstrates a way to use cross-site scripting to remotely spam an internal network printer.
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Pixma IP90 offers speedy prints on the road, but beware the cost of extras.
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What are you getting when you buy a printer to use under GNU/Linux? The LinuxPrinting.org site can tell you how well a printer will work with free software, but often that's only part of the story. I came face to face with this simple fact when I recently bought a Hewlett-Packard PhotoSmart C3100, a low end inkjet printer that includes scanning and copying features. Besides basic features, like many today, the printer includes features that run without a computer, if only with the specific Windows or OS X software that accompanies it. My experience is one data point for measuring the current state of hardware support for GNU/Linux -- as well as how companies, deliberately or otherwise, are withholding it.
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Microsoft has come up with a strategy it thinks will encourage users to help it in the fight against piracy: the Windows XP Counterfeit Project.
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Blog: PayPal rolls out its security key fob, a little device designed to thwart password-stealing bad guys out to pilfer your online payment account.
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Side-channel code break Security researchers have developed a new approach to breaking the RSA algorithm that creates new problems for the development of effective rights management software.â¦