* Posts by SilentShark

3 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2015

Ever seen printer malware in action? Install this HP Ink patch – or you may find out

SilentShark

Freaked me out..

..when my printer suddenly sprung to life, printing a little note to say it had updated itself.

My Deskjet printer often sulks, and likes to keep itself offline most of the time, so it was extra surprising to see it suddenly announce its proactive patching.

But now it's announced itself to me as being alive itself (with a handy reference to its webserver, I felt compelled to at least have a little poke around. And.. 6 tcp ports open and listening and waiting for abuse :-)

UK teen dodges jail time for role in DDoSes on Natwest, Amazon and more

SilentShark

Ok, that sentence will fix things.

Potent OWA backdoor scores 11,000 corporate creds from single biz

SilentShark

Re: So how did it get on there?

As others have indicated, the real bit of interest here is how did the attackers get a foothold on the OWA server in the first place, and the article is shy of detail..

Without that detail, this is only of passing interest.