One month after Black Hat disclosure, HP's enterprise kit still unpatched Multiple high-severity firmware bugs in HP's business computers remain unpatched, some more than a year after Binarly security researchers disclosed the vulnerabilities to HP and then discussed them at the Black Hat security conference last month. This means that the vulnerabilities, with severity scores ranging from 7.5 to 8. …
.... HP had engineers. I fondly remember lengthy discussions with one of them about some things we tried to do with a programmable function generator, which worked out.... ok-ish (not the engineer's fault, but rather a limitation of the function generator - and we did not have the funds to buy another one). Then this part of HP got spun out as "Agilent" (who continued doing great stuff - not sure about right now, I am no longer in that field).
Same with printers. The old Laserjets were monsters - and reliable. The newer ones? We had a colour Laserjet where the toner cassettes were installed one atop the other on the side of the printer. Every 6 to 8 months we had to take that toner stack apart and thoroughly clean it - dust from the upper cassettes ended up un the lower ones, seriously messing up the colours. Not fun. And messy (though one of my mates / colleagues had all sorts of tricks and could do that really quite fast).
And likely the same with laptops etc.
And UEFI is a bloody mess anyways. Always has been. Complexity is the enemy of a robust and easy to fix system - but complexity caused by the requirements (yeah, I get the idea behind UEFI etc. - doesn't mean I must like it).
Ah yes HP had some very good engineers (same as IBM and Extreme Networks), 4250 is the last time I saw one.
It then went to another company, engineers were good enough but obviously didn't have full knowledge. One unfortunate engineer was onsite almost 2 days and basically replaced everything in a P3015DTN with additional trays due to a sticky sensor and lack of sensors compared to the P4015 series.
We did just under the recommended duty cycle and to give the warehouse more room we went for the P3015 series. The P4015 had additional sensors in the paperpath around the print engine where as the P3015 had one. It was sticking so the printer thought paper had not left the print engine.
Obviously learnt from my mistake, but we got a brand new P3015 out of it minus the outside casing.
PR bullshit alert.
That's always the line they trot out when they have demonstrated that they don't give a damn.
If it was a "top priority", you'd have fixed the problem by now, or at least, announced when a fix would be available.
Wankers.
"HP Enterprise does not make notebooks, laptop, PCs, printers etc. That is the other HP company."
HP not only makes consumer junk, but enterprise grade notebooks, PCs and printers.
HPE is not mentioned, nor is the 'enterprise' capitalised. Read harder.
I did read it several times. And the phrase that stands out is HP enterprise. While grammar matters and all should be up to speed. HP enterprise reads and sounds the same as HP Enterprise. Changing the term to professional or business would allow for the same definition without the confusion. Do you not agree ?
Of course the more consumery business is called hp, not a Hewlett Packard in sight but the more enterprisey business is called Hewlett Packard Enterprise, not HP enterprise. To me anything worded as HP in an article like this will refer to hp inc and anything worded as Hewlett Packard Enterprise or HPE would refer to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, nothing really to get confused about.
If you follow the links in the article they take you to the consumery hp website
I tend to fiddle/install a fair amount of HP software, like JetAdmin and some of their other stuff. Looking in my Programs Files folder, I have folder names like
HP
HP Inc
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
HPE Product Bulletin Gateway
Also one called Compaq - does that count?????
Nothing like consistency!
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