15.09.2014

Context hacks into Canon IoT Printer to run Doom

Researchers at Context Information Security successfully managed to remotely access the web interface on a Canon Pixma printer and modify firmware from the Internet to run the classic 1990s computer game Doom. The news was covered in an editorial on Information Age's Dark Reading site.

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Context hacks into Canon IoT Printer to run Doom

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